For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
Ver. 22. For the Lord will not forsake his people.] Whatever the devil and your own misgiving hearts may suggest to the contrary: as it is ordinary with men to measure God according to their own models, and to think that he should deal by them, as they have done by him. But he is God and not man, yea, there is no God like him for pardoning of sins of all sorts and sizes. Mic 7:17
For his great name's sake,] i.e., For his honour's sake, which he mainly respecteth in all his actions: there being none higher than himself to whom to have respect.
Because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.] He chose you for his love; and he still loveth you for his choice. Go home to him, therefore, again, and he will receive you. As when man and wife drop out, they consider they must live together, and therefore they piece again: so should it be betwixt God and his people.