My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Parallel translations
- WEB All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
- BSB All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
- 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 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
- Jer 51:51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.
- Ps 71:13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
- 2 Chr 32:21And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
- Josh 7:7–9And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
- Jer 3:25We 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.
- Ps 89:45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
- Ezra 9:6And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
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