Psalms 44:15

“My confusion [is] continually before me, etc.] Meaning that which is the occasion of it; and the shame of my face hath covered me; not by reason of sin, which is often the cause of confusion and shame in God’s people; (see <240325>Jeremiah 3:25 <270908>Daniel 9:8); but on account of what follows.”

“shame of . . . face--blushes in disgrace.”

“My confusion is continually before me - My shame; the conviction and the evidence of my disgrace is constantly present with me. Literally, “all the day my shame is before me.” That is, the evidences of disgrace, defeat, and disaster; render everywhere around him, and he could not conceal them from himself. The psalmist here is represented as the head of the people, and expresses the sense of disgrace which the sovereign era people would feel in a time of national calamity; identifying himself with the people, he speaks of the national disgrace as his own. And the shame of my face - The shame that is manifested on the countenance when we blush. Hath covered me - That is, I am suffused with…”

“confusion: Jos 7:7-9; Ezr 9:6; Jer 3:25 covered: Psa 69:7, Psa 71:13, Psa 89:45; Jer 51:51 Psalms 44:16”