"For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.
Isaiah 48:9
Surrounding context
48:8 Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, And were called a transgressor from the womb.
48:9 "For My name's sake I will defer My anger, And for My praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off.
48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.