Isaiah 37:35
New International Version
“I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”

New Living Translation
‘For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend this city and protect it.’”

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

Berean Standard Bible
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’ ”

King James Bible
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

New King James Version
‘For I will defend this city, to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
‘For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and for My servant David’s sake.’”

NASB 1995
‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

NASB 1977
‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Indeed I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”

Amplified Bible
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

Christian Standard Bible
I will defend this city and rescue it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will defend this city and rescue it because of Me and because of My servant David.”

American Standard Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall rest upon this city and I shall save it, because of me and because of David my Servant”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

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.

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.

English Revised Version
For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I will shield this city to rescue it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David."

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.'"

International Standard Version
because I will defend this city and deliver it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David!'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'

Literal Standard Version
And I have covered over this city, | To save it, for My own sake, | And for the sake of My servant David.”

Majority Standard Bible
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

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

NET Bible
I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant."'"

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.”

New Heart English Bible
'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
For I will defend this city, to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

World English Bible
‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

Young's Literal Translation
And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'

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Context
The Fall of Sennacherib Prophesied
34He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD. 35‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

Cross References
2 Kings 20:6
I 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.'"

1 Chronicles 17:19
O LORD. For the sake of Your servant and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed all Your greatness.

Isaiah 31:5
Like 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 38:6
And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.

Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Isaiah 48:9
For 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.

Isaiah 48:11
For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.


Treasury of Scripture

For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

I will

Isaiah 31:5
As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isaiah 38:6
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

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

for mine

Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 58:9-11
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; …

Deuteronomy 32:27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

and for

1 Kings 11:12,13,36
Notwithstanding 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
Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give 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, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth…

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Isaiah 37
1. Hezekiah mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them
6. Isaiah comforts them
8. Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah
14. Hezekiah's prayer
21. Isaiah's prophecy of the destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion
36. An angel slays the Assyrians
37. Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.














(35) For mine own sake . . .--The words set forth, as it were, the two motives of Jehovah's action: "for His own sake," as asserting His majesty against the blasphemy of the Assyrians; for "David's sake," as mindful of the promise made to him, showing, in the spirit of the second commandment, that the good as well as the evil influences of men survive, and that a later generation may profit by the good that was in its predecessor, as well as suffer for its guilt.

Verse 35. - I will defend this city... for mine own sake; literally, I will cover over this city, as a bird covers its young with its wings (comp. Isaiah 31:5; Matthew 23:37). God would do this "for his own sake;" i.e. because his own honour was concerned in the defence of his people. He would also do it for his servant David's sake; i.e. because of the promises made to David, that his children should sit upon his throne (2 Samuel 7:16; Psalm 89:29-37; Psalm 132:11-14, etc.), which involved the continued independence of Judaea and Jerusalem.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will defend
וְגַנּוֹתִ֛י (wə·ḡan·nō·w·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1598: To cover, surround, defend

this
הַזֹּ֖את (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

city
הָעִ֥יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

and rescue it
לְהֽוֹשִׁיעָ֑הּ (lə·hō·wō·šî·‘āh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor

for My own sake
לְמַֽעֲנִ֔י (lə·ma·‘ă·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

and for the sake
וּלְמַ֖עַן (ū·lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

of My servant
עַבְדִּֽי׃ (‘aḇ·dî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

David.’”
דָּוִ֥ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse


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