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 (Jeremiah 11:13, "According to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing (Hebrew, shame), even ... unto Baal;" Hosea 9:10). So far from bringing us "salvation," they have cost us our cattle, and even our children, whom we have sacrificed to them.