O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Ver. 8. O remember not against us former iniquities] Or, the iniquities of them that were before us, wherewith we also are justly chargeable; the sin of the golden calf, saith the Arabic here, an ounce whereof is in all our sufferings to this day, say the Jews. Alexander slew the Branchidae, and utterly destroyed their city, because their forefathers had long before endeavoured to betray Greece into the hands of Xerxes, ως προδοτας ανειλεν (Diodor. Curt. lib. 7).
Speedily prevent us] Lest they come too late; for we are at last gasp.