For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from
our
youth
That is, sin, which is the cause of shame, and of which sinners
ought to be ashamed, and will be sooner or later; so the Targum
renders it, "the confusion of sins"; and the Jewish writers
generally interpret it of idolatry, and of the idol Baal, as
Kimchi and others, called "shame", or that "shameful thing", (
Jeremiah
11:13 ) ( Hosea 9:10 ) , this
idol, because of the multitude of the sacrifices offered to it,
consumed what their fathers laboured for, ever since they had
known them; or, for their worshipping of this idol, such
judgments came upon them as consumed all they got by hard labour;
or rather it may regard their shameful sin of rejecting the
Messiah, and crucifying him; which they will be ashamed of at the
time of their conversion, when they shall look on him whom they
have pierced, and on account of which they suffer the many
calamities they now do: their flocks and their herds, their
sons and their daughters;
whatever evils have befallen them in their persons, families, and
estates, they will confess are owing to sin they have committed,
of which they will now be ashamed; hence it follows: