Yehezkiel 20:22

20:22 But I refrained from doing so, ¹  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.

[20:22]  ¹ tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.