Jeremiah 2:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

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  • Ezra 9:7 : 7 From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
  • Neh 9:32-34 : 32 And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day. 33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil: 34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.
  • Jer 32:32 : 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.
  • Jer 48:27 : 27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.
  • Dan 9:6-8 : 6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you. 8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
  • Prov 6:30-31 : 30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: 31 But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
  • Isa 1:29 : 29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
  • Jer 3:24-25 : 24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

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  • Jer 6:15
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    15 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.

  • Jer 8:12
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    12 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.

  • Mic 2:6
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    6 Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!

  • Isa 45:16
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    16 All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.

  • Jer 3:24-25
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    24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

    25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • Hos 10:6
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    6 And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.

  • Ezek 36:32
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    32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.

  • Isa 1:29
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    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • Hos 5:5
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    5 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.

  • Jer 48:13
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    13 And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.

  • Zech 13:4
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    4 And it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit:

  • Jer 51:51
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    51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.

  • Ezek 39:26
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    26 And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Hos 7:1
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    1 When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.

  • Jer 23:11
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    11 For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

  • Jer 5:11
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    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Zeph 3:11
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    11 In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

  • Zeph 3:4
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    4 Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

  • Jer 2:27
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    27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

  • Jer 2:36
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    36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.

  • Dan 9:7-8
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    7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

    8 O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.

  • Ezek 13:4
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    4 O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9 The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Jer 13:26
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    26 So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

  • Jer 22:22
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    22 All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.

  • Mic 3:7
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    7 And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.

  • Ezek 16:54
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    54 So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you.

  • Mic 6:16
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    16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

  • Isa 30:5
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    5 For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

  • Jer 4:9
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    9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.

  • Jer 2:25
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    25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

  • Hab 2:10
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    10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

  • Hos 6:10
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    10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

  • Hos 5:3
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    3 I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.

  • Jer 48:27
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    27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

  • Jer 23:40
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    40 And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

  • Hos 7:10
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    10 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

  • Ezek 22:6
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    6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.

  • Ezek 16:57
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    57 Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.

  • Lam 2:14
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    14 The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.

  • Hos 4:7
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    7 Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

  • Jer 17:13
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    13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

  • Ezek 43:10
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    10 You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image.

  • Isa 43:28
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    28 Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

  • Nah 3:5
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    5 See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.