Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
not . . . for your sakes--that is, not for any merit in you; for, on the contrary, on your part, there is everything to call down continued severity (compare Deuteronomy 9:5-6). The sole and sure ground of hope was God's regard to "His own name," as the God of covenant grace (Psalms 106:45), which He must vindicate from the dishonor brought on it by the Jews, before the heathen.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ezekiel 20:44
Ezekiel 35:15
Ezekiel 36:35
Daniel 9:4
James 2:7
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