21But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
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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.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: …
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-24)When God promised the poor captives a glorious return, in due time, to their own land, it was a great discouragement to their hopes that they were unworthy, utterly unworthy, of such a favour; therefore, to remove that discouragement, God here shows them that he would do it for them purely for his own name’s sake , that he might be glorified in them and by them, that he might manifest and magnify…
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