51:51 ‘We 1 are ashamed because we have been insulted. 2
Our faces show our disgrace. 3
For foreigners have invaded
the holy rooms 4 in the Lord’s temple.’
3:25 Let us acknowledge 5 our shame.
Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. 6
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.’
20:11 But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. 7
Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me.
They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed.
Their disgrace will never be forgotten.
1 sn The exiles lament the way they have been humiliated.
2 tn Heb “we have heard an insult.”
3 tn Heb “disgrace covers our face.”
4 tn Or “holy places, sanctuaries.”
5 tn Heb “Let us lie down in….”
6 tn Heb “Let us be covered with disgrace.”
9 sn This line has some interesting ties with Jer 15:20-21 where Jeremiah is assured by God that he is indeed with him as he promised him when he called him (1:8, 19) and will deliver him from the clutches of wicked and violent people. The word translated here “awe-inspiring” is the same as the word “violent people” there. Jeremiah is confident that his “awe-inspiring” warrior will overcome “violent people.” The statement of confidence here is, by the way, a common element in the psalms of petition in the Psalter. The common elements of that type of psalm are all here: invocation (v. 7), lament (vv. 7-10), confession of trust/confidence in being heard (v. 11), petition (v. 12), thanksgiving or praise (v. 13). For some examples of this type of psalm see Pss 3, 7, 26.