O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness - not stern justice in punishing, but thy faithfulness to thy promises of mercy to them who truest in thee (Psalms 31:1; Psalms 143:1).
Let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city - chosen as thine in the election of grace, which changes not.
For the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us
- (Exodus 20:5). He does not impugn God's justice in this, as did the complainers (Ezekiel 18:2-3: cf. Jeremiah 31:29).
Thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us - which brings reproach on thy name. "All the nations that are about us" will say that thou, Yahweh, wast not able to save thy peculiar people. So Daniel 9:17, "for the Lord's sake;" Daniel 9:19, "for thine own sake" (Isaiah 48:9; Isaiah 48:11).