Eze 20:22 | NETfull | 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, ^{▼▼ 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.