Jeremiah 51:51

“We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.”

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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

In Context

50You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”

52“Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will execute judgement on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan.

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Cross References

Psalms 69:7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Psalms 74:3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Psalms 79:1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Psalms 79:12Pay back to our neighbours seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Psalms 109:29Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonour. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, 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 →

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