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Sennacherib’s Fall Prophesied

Isaiah 37:35

In 11 translations

BSB
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
KJV
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
WEB
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
ASV
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
LSV
And I have covered over this city, || To save it, for My own sake, || And for the sake of My servant David.”
YLT
And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'
DBY
And I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
DRC
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.
GNV
For I will defend this citie to saue it, for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids sake.
JPS
For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'
LXXE
I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְגַנּוֹתִ֛י עַל־הָעִ֥יר הַזֹּ֖את לְהֽוֹשִׁיעָ֑הּ לְמַֽעֲנִ֔י וּלְמַ֖עַן דָּוִ֥ד עַבְדִּֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ὑπερασπιῶ ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως ταύτης τοῦ σῶσαι αὐτὴν διʼ ἐμὲ, καὶ διὰ Δαυὶδ τὸν παῖδά μου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 38:6And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
  • 2 Kings 20:6I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
  • Isaiah 31:5Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
  • Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
  • Jeremiah 23:5–6Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be…
  • Ephesians 1:14who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
  • Jeremiah 33:15–16In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely,…
  • Ezekiel 37:24–25My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes. They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob,…
  • Jeremiah 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
  • Isaiah 48:9–11For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off. See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.…
  • Ezekiel 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Kings 15:4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
  • Ezekiel 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
  • 1 Kings 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
  • Deuteronomy 32:27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
  • Ephesians 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

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