^9 (A)But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself ^(B)known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

^7 (A)So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them ^(B)profane My holy name anymore. ^(C)Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

²² Nevertheless I ^[a]withdrew My hand and acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.

²¹ But I had concern ^(A)for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.

²² “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, ^(B)but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.

^14 (A)But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.

^12 (A)Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and ^(B)relent from this harm to Your people.

²² For ^(A)the Lord will not forsake ^(B)His people, ^(C)for His great name’s sake, because ^(D)it has pleased the Lord to make you His people.

⁸ Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

⁹ So they said to him: ^(A)“From a very far country your servants have come, because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have ^(B)heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt, ¹⁰ and ^(C)all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan—to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.