Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 48:9

"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." — Isaiah 48:9 (ASV)

"I cannot spare you for your own sake; but I will spare you for my name's sake. I cannot spare you because of anything good in you; but I will spare you because of good in myself." If God can glorify himself by your salvation, he finds a blessed motive for saving you, and, since there is no desert in you, he will fall back upon his own glory, and save you for his own name's sake.