Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 44:15

"All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me," — Psalms 44:15 (ASV)

The shame. —Better take the face as a second object—shame has covered me regarding my face, that is, covered my face.

Though the record of the facts of a sad reality, these verses also have the value of a prophecy sadder still.

Twenty centuries of misery are summed up in these few lines, which have been most literally repeated,

“By the torture, prolonged from age to age,
By the infamy, Israel’s heritage;
By the Ghetto’s plague, by the garb’s disgrace,
By the badge of shame, by the felon’s place.”

R. BROWNING: Holy Cross Day.