My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
The psalmist rehearses God's faithfulness to the fathers, then lodges a sharp complaint: He no longer goes forth with us as He once did. The structure is plain: mercies remembered, present affliction lamented, covenant loyalty maintained despite suffering, and a final prayer that God not forget the dishonor done to His worship.
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Commenting on Psalm 44:1-26
Shame covers him like a crimson mantle, before God and man alike. He feels deserved by Heaven and despised by earth. Yet mark this: a man of tender heart who grieves for his nation's sin is a treasure; God will have mercy on such, and sends them as choice gifts to the chastened people.
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They boasted once that God would protect them, so now their defeat cuts doubly deep. God seems to have cast them off entirely, yet mark the error: when the faithful are cast down, they mistake it for being cast away. God has not forsaken His people, though they are tempted to think it.
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Commenting on Psalm 44:9-16