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, O faithless sons,

I will heal your faithlessness.”

“Behold, we come to You;
For You are the Lord our God.

‘For after I turned back, I repented;
And after I was instructed, I smote on my thigh;
I was ashamed and also humiliated
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

Remember this, O Lord, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

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

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,

For we are greatly filled with contempt.

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.

All who pass along the way

Clap their hands in derision at you;

They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,

A joy to all the earth’?”

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Look, and see our reproach!

I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.

For strangers

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins;

The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they should not enter into Your congregation.

See, O Lord, and look!
With whom have You dealt thus?
Should women eat their offspring,
The little ones who were born healthy?
Should priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?

I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

And He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” Thus they went out and struck down the people in the city.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

It even magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.

Then there was given me a

measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, “Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it.