Jeremiah 3:25

3:25 Let us acknowledge ¹  our shame.

Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. ² 

For we have sinned against the Lord our God,

both we and our ancestors.

From earliest times to this very day

we have not obeyed the Lord our God.’

Leviticus 26:41-42

26:41 (and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and ³  then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for ⁴  their iniquity, 26:42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, ⁵  and I will remember the land.

Ezra 9:6

9:6 I prayed, ⁶ 

“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

Ezekiel 6:9

6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize ⁷  how I was crushed by their unfaithful ⁸  heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves ⁹  because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Ezekiel 16:61-63

16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you. 16:62 I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the Lord. 16:63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent ¹⁰  when I make atonement for all you have done, ¹¹  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 20:43-44

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct ¹²  and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves ¹³  because of all the evil deeds you have done. 20:44 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 36:31

36:31 Then you will remember your evil behavior ¹⁴  and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.

Romans 6:21

6:21 So what benefit ¹⁵  did you then reap ¹⁶  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

¹ tn Heb “Let us lie down in….”

² tn Heb “Let us be covered with disgrace.”

³ tn Heb “or then,” although the LXX has “then” and the Syriac “and then.”

⁴ tn Heb “and then they make up for.” On the verb “make up for” see the note on v. 34 above.

⁵ tn Heb “my covenant with Abraham I will remember.” The phrase “I will remember” has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “I said.”

⁷ tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”

⁸ tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling, but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.

⁹ tn Heb adds “in their faces.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and your mouth will not be open any longer.”

¹¹ tn Heb “when I make atonement for you for all which you have done.”

¹² tn Heb “ways.”

¹³ tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “ways.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “fruit.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.