Jeremiah 2:26

2:26 Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught,

so the people of Israel ¹  will suffer dishonor for what they have done. ² 

So will their kings and officials,

their priests and their prophets.

Jeremiah 6:26

6:26 So I said, ³  “Oh, my dear people, ⁴  put on sackcloth

and roll in ashes.

Mourn with painful sobs

as though you had lost your only child.

For any moment now ⁵  that destructive army ⁶ 

will come against us.”

Ezra 9:6-15

9:6 I prayed, ⁷ 

“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. 9:7 From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and ⁸  priests, have been delivered over by the local kings ⁹  to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment – right up to the present time.

9:8 “But now briefly ¹⁰  we have received mercy from the Lord our God, in that he has left us a remnant and has given us a secure position ¹¹  in his holy place. Thus our God has enlightened our eyes ¹²  and has given us a little relief in our time of servitude. 9:9 Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us ¹³  to restore the temple of our God and to raise ¹⁴  up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem. ¹⁵ 

9:10 “And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandments 9:11 which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words: ¹⁶  ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! ¹⁷  With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness. 9:12 Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not take their daughters in marriage for your sons. Do not ever seek their peace or welfare, so that you may be strong and may eat the good of the land and may leave it as an inheritance for your children ¹⁸  forever.’

9:13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint ¹⁹  toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this. 9:14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant? 9:15 O Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt ²⁰  no one can really stand before you.”

Psalms 109:29

109:29 My accusers will be covered ²¹  with shame,

and draped in humiliation as if it were a robe.

Isaiah 50:11

50:11 Look, all of you who start a fire

and who equip yourselves with ²²  flaming arrows, ²³ 

walk ²⁴  in the light ²⁵  of the fire you started

and among the flaming arrows you ignited! ²⁶ 

This is what you will receive from me: ²⁷ 

you will lie down in a place of pain. ²⁸ 

Lamentations 5:16

5:16 The crown has fallen from our head;

woe to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 7:18

7:18 They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald. ²⁹ 

Daniel 12:2

12:2 Many of those who sleep

in the dusty ground will awake –

some to everlasting life,

and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. ³⁰ 

Romans 6:21

6:21 So what benefit ³¹  did you then reap ³²  from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

[2:26]  ¹ tn Heb “house of Israel.”

[2:26]  ² tn The words “for what they have done” are implicit in the comparison and are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:26]  ³ tn These words are not in the text but are implicit from the context.

[6:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the translator’s note there.

[6:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “suddenly.”

[6:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “the destroyer.”

[9:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “I said.”

[9:7]  ⁸ tc The MT lacks “and” here, but see the LXX and Vulgate.

[9:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the kings of the lands.”

[9:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “according to a little moment.”

[9:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a peg” or “tent peg.” The imagery behind this word is drawn from the experience of nomads who put down pegs as they pitched their tents and made camp after times of travel.

[9:8]  ¹² tn Heb “to cause our eyes to shine.” The expression is a figure of speech for “to revive.” See DCH 1:160 s.v. אור Hi.7.

[9:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “has granted us reviving.”

[9:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “to cause to stand.”

[9:9]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “through your servants the prophets, saying.”

[9:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”

[9:12]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “sons”; cf. KJV, NAB, NIV, NLT “children”; NCV, TEV “descendants.”

[9:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “held back downwards from”; KJV “hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve” (NIV, NRSV, NLT all similar).

[9:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “this”; the referent (the guilt mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[109:29]  ²¹ tn Heb “clothed.” Another option is to translate the prefixed verbal forms in this line and the next as jussives (“may my accusers be covered with shame”).

[50:11]  ²² tc Several more recent commentators have proposed an emendation of מְאַזְּרֵי (mÿ’azzÿre, “who put on”) to מְאִירִי (mÿ’iri, “who light”). However, both Qumran scrolls of Isaiah and the Vulgate support the MT reading (cf. NIV, ESV).

[50:11]  ²³ tn On the meaning of זִיקוֹת (ziqot, “flaming arrows”), see HALOT 268 s.v. זִיקוֹת.

[50:11]  ²⁴ tn The imperative is probably rhetorical and has a predictive force.

[50:11]  ²⁵ tn Or perhaps, “flame” (so ASV).

[50:11]  ²⁶ sn Perhaps the servant here speaks to his enemies and warns them that they will self-destruct.

[50:11]  ²⁷ tn Heb “from my hand” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[50:11]  ²⁸ sn The imagery may be that of a person who becomes ill and is forced to lie down in pain on a sickbed. Some see this as an allusion to a fiery place of damnation because of the imagery employed earlier in the verse.

[7:18]  ²⁹ tn Heb “baldness will be on their heads.”

[12:2]  ³⁰ sn This verse is the only undisputed reference to a literal resurrection found in the Hebrew Bible.

[6:21]  ³¹ tn Grk “fruit.”

[6:21]  ³² tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.