Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 9:6

6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespasses grown up unto the heavens.

He includes himself in the number of the transgressors, not onely by a Rhetorical figure called Communication, but guilty in this kind: and partly because the Princes and Priests, and so many of the People having done this, the guilt was now become National.

Like deep Waters, in which we are as it were drowned, and ready to perish. Compare Psal. 38. 4.

Marginal references: Or, guiltiness.