Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And why? For thy sake have I suffered reproof; shame 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.

Darby Translation

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

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.

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 trust in thee, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my cause; let not those that seek thee, be confounded through me, O LORD God of Israel. 7 And why? For thy sake have I suffered reproof; shame hath covered my face. 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's children.

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:15

"O LORD," said I then, "thou knowest all things. Therefore remember me, and visit me, deliver me from my persecutors: Receive not my cause in thy long wrath; yet thou knowest, that for thy sake I suffer rebuke.

Psalm 44:22

For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.

Isaiah 50:6

But I offer my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers. I turn not my face from shame and spitting,

Psalm 22:6-8

But as for me, I am a worm and no man: a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people.

Psalm 44:15

My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and cast out of men's company; and one that had suffered sorrow, and had experience of infirmity. And we were as one that had hid his face from him.

Matthew 26:67-68

Then spat they in his face, and buffeted him with their fists. And others smote him with the palm of their hands on the face,

Matthew 27:29-30

and plaited a crown of thorns and put upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowed their knees before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews,"

Matthew 27:38-44

And there were two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left hand.

Luke 23:11

And Herod, with his men of war, despised him, and mocked him; And arrayed him in white, and sent him again to Pilate.

Luke 23:35-37

And the people stood and beheld. And the rulers mocked him with them, saying, "He helped other men, let him help himself if he be Christ, the chosen of God."

John 15:21-24

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they have not known him that sent me.

Hebrews 12:2

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, which for the joy that was set before him, abode the cross, and despised the shame, and is set down on the righthand of the throne of God.

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