All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
Parallel translations
- WEB All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
- KJV My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
- NKJV My dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has covered me,
- NASB All day long my dishonor is before me And I am covered with my humiliation,
- NLT We can’t escape the constant humiliation; shame is written across our faces.
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Quick answer
All day the psalmist's dishonor confronts him and shame covers his face. It matters because it gives voice to the relentless inward weight of disgrace.
Overview
The lament becomes personal as the speaker describes constant, inescapable shame. The covered face is a sign of disgrace and grief. This honest expression of humiliation finds its answer in Christ, who endured shame and despised it for the joy set before Him, that His people might lift up their faces.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 69:7For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
- Jer 51:51“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
- Ps 71:13May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
- 2 Chr 32:21and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
- Josh 7:7–9“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
- Jer 3:25Let 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.”
- Ps 89:45You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
- Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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