Jeremiah 23:40
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 23:40 in other translations
| BSB | And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.” |
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| WEB | I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’” |
| ASV | and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. |
| YLT | And I have put on you reproach age-during, And shame age-during that is not forgotten! |
| DARBY | And I will bring everlasting reproach upon you, and everlasting shame, that shall not be forgotten. |
| BBE | And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men. |
| Webster | And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. |
What does Jeremiah 23:40 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 23:33-40
Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now be cast out of his presence. It is a mark of great and daring impiety for men to jest with the words of God. Every idle and profane word will add to the sinner's burden in the day of judgment, when everlasting shame will be…
Jeremiah 23:40 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 23:40
- Jeremiah 20:11
But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
- Ezekiel 5:14-15
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it.
- Jeremiah 42:18
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
- Deuteronomy 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
- Jeremiah 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
- Jeremiah 44:8-12
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah. …
- Daniel 12:2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Daniel 9:16
O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
- Hosea 4:7
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
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Context
- Jeremiah 23:39
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
- Jeremiah 23:40
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah 23:40 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y pondré sobre vosotros afrenta perpetua, y eterna confusión que nunca borrará el olvido. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et je ferai venir sur vous un opprobre éternel, et une éternelle confusion, et elle ne sera point oubliée. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und ich werde ewigen Hohn auf euch legen und eine ewige Schande, die nicht vergessen werden wird. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et dabo vos in opprobrium sempiternum, et in ignominiam æternam, quæ numquam oblivione delebitur. |