“The Lord
Our God,
Is in the right.
However,
There is open shame
On us
With our ancestors.
This very day,
All those calamities,
With which
The Lord threatened us,
Have come upon us.
Yet we have not entreated
The favor of the Lord,
By turning away,
Each of us,
From the thoughts
Of our wicked hearts.
The Lord
Has kept
The calamities ready.
The Lord has brought them
Upon us.
The Lord is just
In all his works
That he has commanded us
To do.
Yet we have not obeyed
His voice,
To walk
In the statutes
Of the Lord
That he set before us.”
Their Lord was right. Thus they and their ancestors were shamed. The Lord’s threatened disasters have come upon them. However, instead of asking for favors and forgiveness, they turned their thoughts and wicked hearts away from God. The Lord kept these calamities ready to use at any time since he was just. They were the people who would not obey the voice of the Lord in following his statutes. They were guilty of sinning against their Lord and God.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 