9For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The deliverance of God’s people out of their captivity in Babylon was a thing upon many accounts so improbable that there was need of line upon line for the encouragement of the faith and hope of God’s people concerning it. Two things were discouraging to them—their own unworthiness that God should do it for them and the many difficulties in the thing itself; now, in these verses, both these disco…
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