Isaiah 37:35
Good News Translation
I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.'"

New Revised Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Contemporary English Version
I will protect it for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.

New American Bible
I will shield and save this city for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.

I will

Isaiah 31:5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.

Isaiah 38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.

2 Kings 20:6 And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.

for mine

Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 58:9-11 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

Ezekiel 20:9 But I did otherwise for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, in the midst of whom they were, and among whom I made myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 36:22 Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: It is not for your sake that I will do this, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations whither you went.

Ephesians 1:6,14 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son. . . .

and for

1 Kings 11:12,13,36 Nevertheless, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. . . .

1 Kings 15:4 But for David's sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

Jeremiah 30:9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

Jeremiah 33:15,16 In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice to spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

Ezekiel 37:24,25 And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them. . . .

Context
The Fall of Sennacherib Prophesied
34By the way that he came, he shall return, and into this city he shall not come, saith the Lord. 35And I will protect this city, and will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of David my servant.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:6
And I will add to thy days fifteen years: and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect this city for my own sake, and for David, my servant's sake.

1 Chronicles 17:19
O Lord, for thy servant's sake, according to thy own heart, thou hast shewn all this magnificence, and wouldst have all the great things to be known.

Isaiah 31:5
As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts protect Jerusalem, protecting and delivering, passing over and saving.

Isaiah 38:6
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.

Isaiah 43:25
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 48:9
For my name's sake I will remove my wrath far off: and for my praise I will bridle thee, lest thou shouldst perish.

Isaiah 48:11
For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.

Zechariah 9:15
The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar.

Isaiah 37:34
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