How should my Name be polluted? i.e. how should I allow of its pollution or desecration (see the comment on Isaiah 48:9)? I will not give my glory unto another (comp. Isaiah 42:8). God would have ceded his glory to some god of the nations, had he under existing circumstances forsaken Israel.
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Isaiah 48:11
Isaiah 48:11
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