Parallel Verses

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.

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 Do not let those who wait for you to be shamed through me, Lord Jehovah of Hosts. Do not let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel. 7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Dishonor has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:15

Then I said: O Jehovah you understand. Remember me and help me. Let me have revenge on those who persecute me. Do not be so patient with them that they succeed in killing me. Remember that it is for your sake that I have suffered reproach.

Psalm 44:22

We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

Isaiah 50:6

I will offer my back to those who whip me. I will offer my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me.

Psalm 22:6-8

Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people.

Psalm 44:15

All day long my disgrace is in front of me. Shame covers my face.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men. He was a man of sorrows familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised. We did not consider him to be worth much.

Matthew 26:67-68

They spat in his face and hit him, saying:

Matthew 27:29-30

They made a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They placed a rod in his right hand. Then they bowed down on their knees before him. They mocked him, saying: Long life to the King of the Jews.

Matthew 27:38-44

Two robbers were impaled with him. One was on the right hand and one on the left.

Luke 23:11

And Herod with his soldiers despised him with contempt, and mocked him. They arrayed him in magnificent apparel. Then they sent him back to Pilate.

Luke 23:35-37

The people stood watching while the rulers scoffed at him, saying: He saved others let him save himself if this is his chosen, the Christ of God.

John 15:21-24

They will do all these things to you for my name's sake. It is because they do not know the one that sent me.

Hebrews 12:2

Look to (consider without distractions) Jesus, the Leader (Predecessor) and Finisher (Perfecter) of our faith. He despised the shame. He endured the stake for the joy that was set before him. Then he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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