For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
The scope of this paragraph is the same with that of the last, to show that sin is the great mischief-maker; as it is that which keeps good things from us, so it is that which brings evil things upon us.
Commenting on Isaiah 59:9-15
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee,.... Not only an increase of immorality among the people in common, but among professors of religion; and as their transgressions are committed against the Lord, so they are in his sight taken notice of and observed by him, are loathsome and abominable to him, and call aloud for his judgments on them: and our sins testify against us...
(Dan 9:5, &c.). thee . . . us--antithesis. with us--that is, we are conscious of them (Job 12:3, Margin; Job 15:9). know--acknowledge they are our iniquities.