Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.

New American Standard Bible

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Dishonor has covered my face.

King James Version

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Holman Bible

For I have endured insults because of You,
and shame has covered my face.

International Standard Version

I am being mocked because of you. Dishonor overwhelms me.

A Conservative Version

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach, shame has covered my face.

American Standard Version

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

Amplified


Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Confusion and dishonor have covered my face.

Bible in Basic English

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

Julia Smith Translation

Because for thee I bare reproach: shame covered my face.

King James 2000

Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

Modern King James verseion

because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And why? For thy sake have I suffered reproof; shame hath covered my face.

NET Bible

For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

New Heart English Bible

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

The Emphasized Bible

Because, for thy sake, have I borne reproach, Confusion hath covered my face;

Webster

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

World English Bible

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Youngs Literal Translation

For because of Thee I have borne reproach, Shame hath covered my face.

References

Fausets

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Plea For Rescue

6 Let not them that wait on thee, Lord, Jehovah of hosts, be ashamed through me; let not those that seek thee be confounded through me, O God of Israel. 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face. 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;


Cross References

Jeremiah 15:15

Jehovah, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; in thy long-suffering take me not away: know that for thy sake I bear reproach.

Psalm 44:22

But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

Isaiah 50:6

I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Psalm 22:6-8

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people.

Psalm 44:15

All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces; despised, and we esteemed him not.

Matthew 26:67-68

Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and some struck him with the palms of their hand,

Matthew 27:29-30

and having woven a crown out of thorns, they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and, bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

Matthew 27:38-44

Then are crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left.

Luke 23:11

And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back to Pilate.

Luke 23:35-37

And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also with them sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.

John 15:21-24

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.

Hebrews 12:2

looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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