But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

I had pity for mine holy name - i:e., I felt pity for it: God's own name, so dishonoured, was the primary object of His pitying concern, then His people, secondarily, through His concern for it (Fairbairn).

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