For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Shame hath devoured the labours of our fathers ... their flocks ... herds - i:e., the idols, whose worship only covers us with shame (, "According to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing (Hebrew, shame), even ... unto Baal;" ). So far from bringing us "salvation," they have cost us our cattle, and even our children, whom we have sacrificed to them.

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