Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 9:16

16 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 .

As if he had said, Lord according to thy righteousness thou hast punished thy people, as they justly deserved; now also according to thy Mercies, which is the other part of thy Righteousness, save thy people though they deserve it not. See Psal. 143.1, 2. For God hath promised, and therefore he will do it, yet in Mercy, and this is Faithfulness and Righteousness. See 1 Joh. 1.9.

Now though sin is the reproach of any People and Nation, yet much more of the People of God, which should be a Holy People, because their God is a holy God▪ and his Laws are holy Laws, by which they excel all other people. Yet Lord▪ saith he, if Jerusalem be a reproach, this is a reproach to thee, because of their relation to thee, therefore I pray thee take away this double reproach; it is grievous unto us to bear it for thy Names sake, O let it be grievous unto thee, and therefore wipe it away.

Marginal references: Psal. 44.14. & 79.4.