My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
The psalm containing this cry of continual confusion and covered shame is presumably Hezekiah's, belonging to the crisis of Sennacherib's invasion and the overthrow of the Assyrian host. It portrays Israel as both backslidden and persecuted, suffering reproach while estranged from former favor. With Psalms 42 and 43 it stands as provision for the downcast, meeting despondency with remembrance of God. Its figure of God's people as sheep appointed for slaughter is taken up by Paul in Romans 8, where the same suffering becomes ground for confidence that believers are more than conquerors through Christ.
The psalm containing this cry of continual confusion and covered shame is presumably Hezekiah's, belonging to the crisis of Sennacherib's invasion and the overthrow of the Assyrian host. It portrays Israel as both backslidden and persecuted, suffering reproach while estranged from former favor. With Psalms 42 and 43 it stands as provision for the downcast, meeting despondency with remembrance of God. Its figure of God's people as sheep appointed for slaughter is taken up by Paul in Romans 8, where the same suffering becomes ground for confidence that believers are more than conquerors through Christ.