Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 Ye that have escaped the sword: haste you, stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and think upon Jerusalem: 51 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. 52 "Wherefore, behold, sayeth the LORD, the time cometh that I will visit the images of Babylon, and through the whole land they shall mourn and fall.
Cross References
Lamentations 1:10
{Yod} The enemy hath put his hand to all the precious things that she had, yea even before her eyes came the Heathen in and out of the Sanctuary: whom thou, nevertheless, hast forbidden to come within thy congregation.
Psalm 44:13-16
Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.
Psalm 74:3-7
Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy sanctuary.
Psalm 79:4
We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.
Psalm 69:7-13
And why? For thy sake have I suffered reproof; shame hath covered my face.
Psalm 71:13
Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul; let them be covered with shame and dishonour, that seek to do me evil.
Psalm 74:18-21
Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy rebuketh, and how the foolish people blaspheme thy name.
Psalm 79:1
{A Psalm of Asaph} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem a heap of stones.
Psalm 79:12
And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee, reward them, O LORD, seven fold into their bosom.
Psalm 109:29
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are utterly despised.
Psalm 137:1-3
By the waters of Babylon we sat down; and wept, when we remembered Zion.
Jeremiah 3:22-25
"O ye shrinking children, turn again, saying, "Lo, we are thine, for thou art the LORD our God!" And so shall I heal your backturnings.
Jeremiah 14:3
The lords shall send their servants to fetch water, and when they come to the wells, they shall find no water, but shall carry their vessels home empty. They shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall cover their heads.
Jeremiah 31:19
Yea, as soon as thou turnest me, I shall reform myself: and when I understand, I shall smite upon my thigh. For verily I have committed shameful things: O let my youth bear this reproof and confusion.'
Jeremiah 52:13
and burnt up the house of the LORD. He burnt up also the king's palace, all the houses, and all the gorgeous buildings in Jerusalem.
Lamentations 2:15-17
{Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?"
Lamentations 2:20
{ Res} Behold, O LORD, and consider: why hast thou gathered me up so clean? Shall the women then eat their own fruit; even children of a span long? Shall the priests and prophets be slain thus in the Sanctuary of the LORD?
Lamentations 5:1
{The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion.
Ezekiel 7:18
they shall gird themselves with sack cloth, fear shall fall upon them. Their faces shall be confounded, and their heads bald;
Ezekiel 7:21-22
Moreover, I will give it into the hands of the strangers to be spoiled: and to the wicked for to be robbed, and they shall destroy it.
Ezekiel 9:7
for he had said unto them, "When ye have defiled the temple, and filled the court with the slain, then go your way forth." So they went out, and slew down through the city.
Ezekiel 24:21
'Tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will suspend my sanctuary: even the glory of your power, that pleasure of your eyes, and the thing that ye love: your sons and daughters whom ye have left, shall fall through the sword.
Ezekiel 36:30
I will multiply the fruits of the trees, and the increase of the field for you, so that ye shall bear no more reproof of hunger among the Heathen.
Daniel 8:11-14
Yea it grew up unto the prince of the host, from whom the daily offering was taken, and the place of his Sanctuary casten down.
Daniel 9:26-27
After these sixty two weeks, shall Christ be slain, and they shall have no pleasure in him. Then shall there come a people with the prince, and destroy the city and the Sanctuary: and his end shall come as the water flood. But the desolation shall continue till the end of the battle.
Daniel 11:31
He shall set mighty men to unhallow the Sanctuary of strength, and to put down the daily offering, and to set up the abominable desolation.
Micah 7:10
She that is mine enemy shall look upon it, and be confounded, which now sayeth, "Where is thy LORD God?" Mine eyes shall behold her, when she shall be trodden down, as the clay in the streets.
Revelation 11:1-2
And then was given me a reed, like unto a rod, and it was said unto me, "Rise and mete the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein;