“When the Israelites came
To the nations,
Wherever they came,
They profaned
My holy name.
It was said of them.
‘These are the people
Of Yahweh.
Yet they had to go
Out of his land.’
But I had concern
For my holy name.
The house of Israel
Had profaned it
Among the nations
To which they came.”
Yahweh complained that the Israelites had profaned his holy name in the various countries that they went into. The people there in those countries would say that Yahweh’s people had to leave the land of Yahweh. Thus, they continued to profane the name of Yahweh in their exile, in whatever country they were living.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 