Jeremiah 51:51
'We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach, confusion hath covered our faces; for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Psalms 69:7(69-8) Because for Thy sake I have borne reproach; confusion hath covered my face.
Psalms 74:3Lift up Thy steps because of the perpetual ruins, even all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
Psalms 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem into heaps.
Psalms 79:12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached Thee, O Lord.
Psalms 109:29Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe.
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →