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, ye rebellious sons, and I will heal your rebellion. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

Surely after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, and even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.

Remember this, that the enemy has spoken against the LORD and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

We are reproached by our neighbours, scorned, and derided by those that are round about us.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly weary of being held in contempt.

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

Samech All that passed by clapped their hands over thee and whistled and wagged their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach.

I will multiply likewise the fruit of the trees, and the fruit of the fields, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the Gentiles.

For strangers

and burned the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burned with fire:

Lift up thy feet unto the eternal desolations, unto every enemy who has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

O God, the Gentiles are come into thine inheritance; they have defiled the temple of thy holiness; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Jod The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her precious things, and she saw the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

Resh Look, O LORD, and consider unto whom thou hast shaken thus. Shall the women eat their fruit, the little ones that they are bringing up? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

And I gave it into the hands of the strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

And he said unto them, Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain; go forth. And they went forth and slew in the city.

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the gift of your soul; your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

Even against the prince of the host did he magnify himself, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast to the earth.

And after the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be killed and shall have nothing: (and the ruling people that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; whose end shall be as a flood, until at the end of the war it shall be cut off with desolation).

And arms shall be placed on his behalf, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod, and he said unto me, Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those that worship therein.