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Jer. 51:51 KJV (With Strong’s)

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangersm are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

Lam. 1:10• ¹⁰The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:{HR}For she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,{HR}Whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. (Lam. 1:10)

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are confounded.

Jer. 3:22‑25• ²²{i}—Return, backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings. ...Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.{/i}
²³{i}Truly in vain is salvation looked for from the hills, and the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.{/i}
²⁴{i}But shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.{/i}
²⁵{i}We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God.{/i} (Jer. 3:22‑25)

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Jer. 31:19• ¹⁹Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. (Jer. 31:19)

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Psa. 74:18‑21• ¹⁸Remember this: an enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah,{HR}And a foolish people have despised thy name.
¹⁹Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove to the wild beast :{HR}Forget not the herd of thine afflicted forever.
²⁰Have respect unto the covenant;{HR}For the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
²¹Let not the oppressed return ashamed;{HR}Let crushed one and needy one praise thy name. (Psa. 74:18‑21)

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Psa. 79:4,12• ⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A mockery and derision to those round about us.
¹²And render to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom{HR}Their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. (Psa. 79:4,12)

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Psa. 123:3‑4• ³Be gracious to us, Jehovah,{HR}Be gracious to us,{HR}For greatly are we filled with contempt.
⁴Greatly is our soul filled with the scorning of those at ease,{HR}The contempt of the proud. (Psa. 123:3‑4)

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Psa. 137:1‑3• ¹By rivers of Babylon, there we sat;{HR}Also we wept when we remembered Zion.
²On willows in its midst we hung our harps.
³For there our captors asked us words of song,{HR}And our spoilers mirth, [saying] Sing to us from a song of Zion. (Psa. 137:1‑3)

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Lam. 2:15‑17• ¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee;{HR}They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,{HR}Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:{HR}They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:{HR}Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
¹⁷Jehovah hath done that which he had devised;{HR}He hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:{HR}He hath thrown down and hath not pitied:{HR}And he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,{HR}He hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. (Lam. 2:15‑17)

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Lam. 5:1• ¹Remember, O Jehovah, what hath happened to us; behold, and look on our reproach. (Lam. 5:1)

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Ezek. 36:30• ³⁰And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. (Ezek. 36:30)

shame.

Jer. 3:25• ²⁵{i}We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God.{/i} (Jer. 3:25)

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Jer. 14:3• ³{i}And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.{/i} (Jer. 14:3)

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Psa. 44:13‑16• ¹³Thou settest us [as] a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.
¹⁴Thou settest us a by-word among the Gentiles,{HR}A shaking of the head among the nations.
¹⁵All the day my shame [is] before me,{HR}And the confusion of my face hath covered me,
¹⁶Because of the voice of him who reproacheth and blasphemeth,{HR}Because of the face of the enemy and the avenger. (Psa. 44:13‑16)

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Psa. 69:7‑13• ⁷Because on account of thee I have borne reproach;{HR}Disgrace hath covered my face.
⁸A stranger I am become to my brethren,{HR}And an alien to my mother's sons;
⁹For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up,{HR}And the reproaches of those reproaching thee fell on me.
¹⁰And I wept [away] my soul in fasting;{HR}And it was for reproaches to me.
¹¹When I made my clothing sackcloth,{HR}I too was to them for a proverb.
¹²Those that sit at the gate talk of me,{HR}And [I am] songs to drinkers of strong drink.
¹³But as for me, my prayer [is] to thee,{HR}O Jehovah (in) an acceptable time;{HR}O God, in the abundance of thy mercy answer me,{HR}In the truth of thy salvation. (Psa. 69:7‑13)

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Psa. 71:13• ¹³Ashamed, consumed, be the adversaries of my soul;{HR}Covered with reproach and dishonour be those that seek evil to me. (Psa. 71:13)

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Psa. 109:29• ²⁹Mine adversaries shall be clothed with dishonour,{HR}They shall cover themselves with their shame as the mantle. (Psa. 109:29)

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Ezek. 7:18• ¹⁸{i}And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.{/i} (Ezek. 7:18)

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Mic. 7:10• ¹⁰{i}And mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets.{/i} (Mic. 7:10)

for strangers.

Jer. 52:13• ¹³{i}and he{/i} burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house: and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: (Jer. 52:13)

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Psa. 74:3‑7• ³Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual ruins,{HR}Every evil the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
⁴Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thy place of assembly:{HR}They have set their signs [for] signs.
⁵One was known as raising up axes on the thicket of trees:
⁶And now its carvings together they strike down with hatchets and hammers.
⁷They have set on fire thy sanctuary;{HR}To the ground they have profaned the tabernacle of thy name. (Psa. 74:3‑7)

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Psa. 79:1• ¹A psalm of Asaph.{HR}O God, nations are come into thine inheritance,{HR}The temple of thy holiness have they defiled,{HR}They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. (Psa. 79:1)

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Lam. 2:20• ²⁰Behold, O Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this.{HR}Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?{HR}Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? (Lam. 2:20)

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Ezek. 7:21‑22• ²¹And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
²²My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. (Ezek. 7:21‑22)

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Ezek. 9:7• ⁷{i}And he said unto them,{/i} Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. (Ezek. 9:7)

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Ezek. 24:21• ²¹Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. (Ezek. 24:21)

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Dan. 8:11‑14• ¹¹Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the host, and from him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
¹²And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression. And it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced and prospered.
¹³{i}And I heard{/i} one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
¹⁴And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. (Dan. 8:11‑14)

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Dan. 9:26‑27• ²⁶After the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
²⁷He shall confirm covenant with the many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the wing of abominations, [there shall be] a desolator, even until the consummation, and that determined, shall be poured upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:26‑27)

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Dan. 11:31• ³¹And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. (Dan. 11:31)

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Rev. 11:1‑2• ¹And there was given me a reed like a rod, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those that worship therein.
²And the court that is without the temple cast out, and measure it not; for it was given to the nations: and the holy city shall they tread forty [and] two months. (Rev. 11:1‑2)

J. N. Darby Translation

—We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our face: for strangers are comeb into the sanctuaries of Jehovah’s house.

JND Translation Notes

Or "against."

W. Kelly Translation

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah’s house.