Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
Disgrace has covered our faces,
For
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
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].
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.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:51
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
50 Being saved from the sword, go: ye shall not stand: remember from far off Jehovah, and Jerusalem shall come up upon your heart 51 We were ashamed for we heard reproach: shame covered our faces, for strangers came to the holy places of the house of Jehovah. 52 For this, behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I reviewed upon her carved images: and in all her land the wounded shall groan.
Cross References
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary spread out his hand upon all her delights, for she saw the nations came in to her holy place, which thou didst command they shall not come in to the convocation to thee.
Psalm 44:13-16
Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us.
Psalm 74:3-7
Lift up thy steps to desolations forever; all the evil of the enemy in the holy place.
Psalm 79:4
We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.
Psalm 69:7-13
Because for thee I bare reproach: shame covered my face.
Psalm 71:13
They lying in wait for my soul shall be ashamed; they shall be finished; they seeking my evil shall be covered with reproach and shame.
Psalm 74:18-21
Remember this, the enemy reproached Jehovah, and the foolish people despised thy name.
Psalm 79:1
Chanting to Asaph. O God, the nations came into thine inheritance; they defiled thy holy temple; they set Jerusalem for ruins.
Psalm 79:12
And turn back to our neighbors seven fold to their bosom their reproach which they reproached thee, O Jehovah.
Psalm 109:29
They lying in wait for me shall put on shame, and they shall be covered with their shame as an upper garment
Psalm 123:3-4
Compassionate us, O Jehovah, compassionate us: for we were much filled with contempt
Psalm 137:1-3
By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion.
Jeremiah 3:22-25
Turn back, ye sons turning away; I will heal your turnings-away. Behold, we came to thee; for thou Jehovah our God.
Jeremiah 14:3
And their great ones sent their small ones to the waters; they came to the wells, they found no water; they turned back their vessels empty; they were ashamed and disgraced, and they covered their head.
Jeremiah 31:19
For after my being turned back I was comforted; and after my knowing I struck upon the thigh: I was ashamed and also disgraced for I bore the reproach of my youth.
Jeremiah 52:13
And he will burn the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt in fire:
Lamentations 2:15-17
All passing by the way clapped their hands at thee; they hissed, and they will nod their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: This the city, they will say; the complete splendor of joy to all the earth.
Lamentations 2:20
See, O Jehovah, and look to whom thou didst accomplish this Shall the women eat their fruit, the children borne upon the hands? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the holy place of Jehovah?
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O Jehovah, what was to us: look and see our reproach.
Ezekiel 7:18
And they girded on sackcloth and trembling covered them; and shame to all faces, and upon all heads, baldness.
Ezekiel 7:21-22
And I gave it into the hands of strangers for plunder, and to the unjust of the earth for a spoil; and they profaned it
Ezekiel 9:7
And he will say to them, Defile the house, and fill the enclosures with the wounded: go ye forth. And they went forth and struck in the city.
Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold me profaning my holy place, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the pity of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom ye left, shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 36:30
And I multiplied the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that ye shall no more take the reproach of famine among the nations.
Daniel 8:11-14
And even to the chief of the army was he magnified, and from him the continuance was lifted up, and the foundation of his holy place was cast down.
Daniel 9:26-27
And after sixty and two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, and not for him: and the people of the leader coming shall destroy the city and the holy place; and its end with an overflowing, and even to the end of the war desolations were determined.
Daniel 11:31
And seed from him shall stand up, and they profaned the holy place of strength, and they removed the Continuance, and they gave the abomination laying waste.
Micah 7:10
And mine enemy shall see, and shame shall cover her saying to me, Where Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for treading down as the mire of the streets.
Revelation 11:1-2
And a reed was given me like rod: and the messenger stood, saying, Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them worshipping in it.