Eze 20:22 | NET2full | STEP | But I refrained from doing so and acted instead for the sake of my reputation , so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out .

‏ Ezekiel 20:22

22 But I refrained from doing so ^{▼▼tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.} and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.