We lie down in our shame; we are perplexed and confounded within ourselves; we are such a reproach, both to God and man, that we cannot but lift up our hands for shame, even we, that had once a whore’s forehead, Jeremiah 3:3 , but must lie down in our shame; an expression to set ...
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We lie down in our shame; we are perplexed and confounded within ourselves; we are such a reproach, both to God and man, that we cannot but lift up our hands for shame, even we, that had once a whore’s forehead, Jeremiah 3:3 , but must lie down in our shame; an expression to set forth tho greatness of their repentance and sorrow; as one in great perplexity, not knowing what to do, throws himself down upon his couch or bed, 1 Kings 21:4 . Our confusion covereth us; a metaphor from persons muffled up in the bed-clothes, as ashamed to be seen: the like expression Psalm 44:15 . We and our fathers this notes the universality of their sins, the whole generation of us, like fathers, like children. True confession wraps up our own and others’ sins, Ezra 9:7 Nehemiah 9:33,34 Psa 106:6,7 Jer 14:20 , and keeps us from all excuse by others’ examples, 2 Kings 17:41 , which gross guilt of theirs in this kind is described Jeremiah 44:17 . From our youth even unto this day: as the former sets forth the universality of their sins, so this the continuance of them, Deu 9:7 2 Kings 17:34,41 .