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I. THE WAY IN WHICH GOD REVEALS HIS PARDONING MERCY. "I will establish My covenant with thee." The covenant of grace is the grand repository of the redemption of man. It comprehends all the items, all the particulars of Christ Jesus our Lord, in His person, His name, and all the characters and offices He has fulfilled in the work of man's redemption — which holds up all the effects of that work, all the fruits of that love, all the blessings of that redemption, and withal tracing it in all its refined ramifications to the covenant of grace.

II. THE CHARACTER IN WHICH HE THUS REVEALS IT. "Thou shalt know that I am the Lord." Thus to know the Lord is to know Him as a covenant God — to know Him as a God in Jesus Christ. God out of Christ is a consuming fire — I dare not approach Him but in Christ. I find Him to be a God of sympathy and compassion, because I find God in my nature is the very High Priest who intercedeth for sinners. God in my nature can be touched with the feeling of my infirmities, and knows how to sympathise with me. It is in this character as God in Christ that He reveals the blessings of His salvation.

III. THE EFFECT THAT IS PRODUCED ON THE HEART BY THIS PARDONING MERCY. "That thou mayest remember, and be confounded," etc. If there is not a more pure or a more exalted motive to obedience than the love of God, there is not a more powerful motive to walking in the ways of God, than the assurance of His pardoning love and mercy. How quickly does it excite the attention of a poor trembling sinner to hear the sound of mercy, when he knows that that sound comes from God who can pardon!

(J. Holloway.)

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KJV: And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

WEB: I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;