“But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”
But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord. The Exodus covenant is the ground of the preservation: for their sake I will remember the covenant. The ancestors brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations are the founding generation whose covenant God remembers for the sake of their descendants. The in the sight of the nations communicates the public character of the original covenant's establishment — and the public character of the eventual restoration that the covenant's memory will produce.
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