I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.