Jeremiah 3:25

Shame Guilt and conscience Sin Repentance

²³ Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

²⁴ For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
KJV: We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
WEB: Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the LORD our God’s voice.”
ASV: Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.
DARBY: We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God.
BLB: Let us lie down and let our shame, and let our disgrace cover us; for we have sinned against YHWH our God, we and our fathers, from our youth and to this day, and we have not listened to the voice of YHWH our God.

ÅB: La oss ligge i vår vanære, og la vår skam dekke oss! For mot Herren vår Gud har vi syndet, vi og våre fedre, fra vår ungdom av like til denne dag, og vi har ikke hørt på Herrens, vår Guds røst.
[^1]: d.e. holde larmende avgudstjeneste på dem.
OTB: La oss legge oss ned i vår skam, og la vår vanære dekke oss. Vi har syndet mot Herren vår Gud, både vi og våre forfedre; fra vår ungdom til denne dag har vi ikke adlydt Herrens vår Guds røst.”
B1930: La oss ligge i vår vanære, og la vår skam dekke oss! For mot Herren vår Gud har vi syndet, vi og våre fedre, fra vår ungdom av like til denne dag, og vi har ikke hørt på Herrens, vår Guds røst.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 22:21
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
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Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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Proverbs 5:13
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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Ezekiel 7:18
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
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Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
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Psalms 109:29
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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Isaiah 50:11
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
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Nehemiah 9:32–34
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
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