And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
At the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness х qamtiy (H6965) mita`ªniytiy (H8589)] - I rose up from my humiliation. When fasting, as associated with mourning, the Jews were wont to sit on the ground.
I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God. The burden of his prayer, which was dictated by a deep sense of the emergency, was, that he was overwhelmed at the flagrant enormity of this sin, and the bold impiety of continuing in it, after having, as a people, so recently experienced the heavy marks of the divine displeasure. God had begun to show returning favour to Israel by the restoration of some. But this only aggravated their sin, that so soon after their re-establishment in their native land, they openly violated the express and repeated percepts which commanded them to extirpate the Canaanites. Such conduct, he exclaimed, could issue only in drawing down some great punishment from offended heaven, and ensuring the destruction of the small remnant of us that is left, unless, by the help of divine grace, we repent, and bring forth the fruits of repentance in an immediate and thorough reformation.