8. O remember not against us former iniquities. Generations lay up stores of transgressions to be visited upon their
successors; hence this urgent prayer. In Josiah’s days the most earnest
repentance was not able to avert the doom which former long years of idolatry
had sealed against Judah. Every man has reason to ask for an act of oblivion
for his past sins, and every nation should make this a continual prayer. Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. Hasten
to our rescue, for our nation is hurrying down to destruction. Observe how
penitent sorrow seizes upon the sweeter attributes, and draws her pleas from
the “tender mercies” of God;
see, too, how she pleads her own distress, and not her goodness, as a motive
for the display of mercy.
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