Jeremiah 51:51
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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.

are confounded

Jeremiah 3:22-25 Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God. . . .

Jeremiah 31:19 For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth.

Psalm 74:18-21 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. . . .

Psalm 79:4,12 We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. . . .

Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. . . .

Psalm 137:1-3 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: . . .

Lamentations 2:15-17 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth? . . .

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

Ezekiel 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

shame

Jeremiah 3:25 We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 14:3 The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.

Psalm 44:13-16 Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them. . . .

Psalm 69:7-13 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. . . .

Psalm 71:13 Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.

Psalm 109:29 Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.

Ezekiel 7:18 And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.

Micah 7:10 And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, who saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down upon her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets.

for strangers

Jeremiah 52:13 And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Psalm 74:3-7 Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. . . .

Psalm 79:1 A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

Lamentations 1:10 Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.

Lamentations 2:20 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Ezekiel 7:21,22 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it. . . .

Ezekiel 9:7 And he said to them: Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew them that were in the city.

Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Daniel 8:11-14 And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of his sanctuary. . . .

Daniel 9:26,27 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. . . .

Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice: and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation.

Revelation 11:1,2 And there was given me a reed, like unto a rod. And it was said to me: Arise, and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore therein. . . .

Context
Babylon's Punishment
50You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51We 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.52Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:…
Cross References
Psalm 44:15
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.

Psalm 69:7
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Psalm 74:3
Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Lamentations 1:10
Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.

Amos 7:9
And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A mason's trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them over no more.

Micah 6:16
For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Lexicon
“We are ashamed
בֹּ֚שְׁנוּ (bō·šə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 954: To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed

because
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

we have heard
שָׁמַ֣עְנוּ (šā·ma‘·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8085: To hear intelligently

reproach;
חֶרְפָּ֔ה (ḥer·pāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2781: Contumely, disgrace, the pudenda

disgrace
כְלִמָּ֖ה (ḵə·lim·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3639: Insult, reproach, ignominy

has covered
כִּסְּתָ֥ה (kis·sə·ṯāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

our faces,
פָּנֵ֑ינוּ (pā·nê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

because
כִּ֚י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

foreigners
זָרִ֔ים (zā·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

have entered
בָּ֣אוּ (bā·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

the holy places
מִקְדְּשֵׁ֖י (miq·də·šê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4720: A consecrated thing, place, a palace, sanctuary, asylum

of the LORD’s
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

house.”
בֵּ֥ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1004: A house


Additional Translations
“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.

We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary, even into the house of the Lord.

-- We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our face: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.

We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

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.

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house.

We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Covered hath shame our faces, For come in have strangers, against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.
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