O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou [it] for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Ver. 7. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us.] Though our guilty consciences bring in large rolls of indictment written against us within and without, and spread before thee.
Do it for thy name's sake.] Heb., Do. A short but pithy petition. So Jeremiah 14:9, "Leave us not."