Jeremiah 51:51

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Summary

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.

Are confounded

For strangers

Bible References

Are confounded

Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

For strangers

and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth! They went forth, and struck in the city.

Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual [burnt offering], and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual [burnt offering], and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.