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 had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'

Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.

All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?"

Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!

I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

For strangers

And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!

O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.

Look, O LORD, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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

Then he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out." So they went out and struck in the city.

'Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

It became great, even as great as the Prince of the host. And the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.

And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,