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Bible in Basic English

We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

New American Standard Bible

We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;
Disgrace has covered our faces,
For aliens have entered
The holy places of the Lord’s house.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

We are ashamed
because we have heard insults.
Humiliation covers our faces
because foreigners have entered
the holy places of the Lord’s temple.

International Standard Version

We have been put to shame because we have heard insults. Disgrace has covered our faces because foreigners have come into the Holy Places of the LORD's house.

A Conservative Version

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces. For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of LORD's house.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


We are perplexed and ashamed, for we have heard reproach;
Disgrace has covered our faces,
For foreigners [from Babylon] have come
Into the [most] sacred parts of the sanctuary of the Lord [even those places forbidden to all but the appointed priest].

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

We were ashamed for we heard reproach: shame covered our faces, for strangers came to the holy places of the house of Jehovah.

King James 2000

We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

Lexham Expanded Bible

We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

We have turned pale because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces, for foreigners have come into the holy places of Jehovah's house.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

for we were ashamed to hear the blasphemies; our faces were covered with shame, because the strange aliens came into the Sanctuary of the LORD.

NET Bible

We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord's temple.'

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

We have turned pale for we have heard a reproach, Confusion, hath covered our faces, - For aliens have entered upon the hallowed places of the house of Yahweh!

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּוּשׁ 
Buwsh 
Usage: 119

חרפּה 
Cherpah 
Usage: 73

כּלמּה 
K@limmah 
Usage: 30

כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

מקּדשׁ מקדּשׁ 
Miqdash 
Usage: 75

of the Lord's

Usage: 0

References

American

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Babylon

50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind. 51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house. 52 For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.



Cross References

Lamentations 1:10

The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

Psalm 44:13-16

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Psalm 74:3-7

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

Psalm 69:7-13

I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

Psalm 71:13

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

Psalm 74:18-21

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Psalm 79:1

O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

Psalm 109:29

Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

Psalm 137:1-3

By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,

Jeremiah 3:22-25

Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 14:3

Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

Jeremiah 31:19

Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:

Lamentations 2:15-17

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

Lamentations 2:20

Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

Lamentations 5:1

Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

Ezekiel 7:21-22

And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.

Ezekiel 9:7

And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

Ezekiel 36:30

And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

Daniel 8:11-14

It made itself great, even as great as the lord of the army; and by it the regular burned offering was taken away, and the place overturned and the holy place made waste.

Daniel 9:26-27

And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

Daniel 11:31

And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.

Micah 7:10

And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.

Revelation 11:1-2

And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.

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