May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle.
Jeremiah 51:51 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 We are put to shame, for we have heard insults; dishonor has covered our faces, for aliens have come into the holy places of the Lord’s house. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition We are confounded and ashamed, for we have heard reproach; confusion and shame have covered our faces, for strangers have come into the [most] sacred parts of the sanctuary of the Lord [even those forbidden for entrance by all but the high priest or the appointed priests]. American Standard Version (1901) We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah’s house. Common English Bible We’re humiliated by their taunts; we’re disgraced that strangers have violated the sacred places of the LORD’s temple. Catholic Public Domain Version We have been confounded, for we heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have overwhelmed the holiness of the house of the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces, because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord. |
May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a mantle.
Let my accusers be put to shame and consumed; let those who seek to hurt me be covered with scorn and disgrace.
O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.
Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter Chaldea! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty. They are ashamed and dismayed and cover their heads,
all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Sheshach shall drink.
For after I had turned away I repented, and after I was discovered, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was dismayed because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”
He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
Enemies have stretched out their hands over all her precious things; she has even seen the nations invade her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Look, O Lord, and consider! To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have borne? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and your heart’s desire, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
I will make the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field abundant, so that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
They shall put on sackcloth; horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.
Then he said to them, “Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and killed in the city.
Forces sent by him shall occupy and profane the temple and fortress. They shall abolish the regular burnt offering and set up the desolating sacrilege.
the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people.
Then my enemies will see, and shame will cover those who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will see their downfall; now they will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.