Lexicon :: Strong's H3639 - kᵊlimmâ

“I have heard the reproof which insults me,

But the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.

O sons of men, how long will my honor and glory be [turned into] shame?

How long will you [my enemies] love worthless (vain, futile) things and seek deception and lies? Selah.

Let those be ashamed and humiliated together who rejoice at my distress;

Let those be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves over me.

My dishonor is before me all day long,

And humiliation has covered my face,

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;

Confusion and dishonor have covered my face.

You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor [how I am insulted];

My adversaries are all before You [each one fully known].

Let those who attack my life be ashamed and consumed;

Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.

Let my attackers be clothed with dishonor,

And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

He who answers before he hears [the facts]—

It is folly and shame to him.

“Therefore the safety and protection of Pharaoh will be your shame

And the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation and disgrace.

They will be put to shame and also humiliated, all of them;

They who make idols will go away together in humiliation.

I turned My back to those who strike Me,

And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard;

I did not hide My face from insults and spitting.

Instead of your [former] shame you will have a [fn]double portion;

And instead of humiliation your people will shout for joy over their portion.

Therefore in their land they will possess double [what they had forfeited];

Everlasting joy will be theirs.

But the LORD is with me as a dread champion [one to be greatly feared];

Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not overcome [me].

They will be completely shamed, for they have not acted wisely and have failed [in their schemes];

Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

We are perplexed and ashamed, for we have heard reproach;

Disgrace has covered our faces,

For foreigners [from Babylon] have come

Into the [most] sacred parts of the sanctuary of the LORD [even those places forbidden to all but the appointed priest].

“[fn]Elam [a conquest of Assyria] is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who made their terror spread in the land of the living and bore their shame and defeat with those who went down to the pit.

“The princes of the north are there also, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who in spite of the terror resulting from their power, have gone down in shame with the slain. So they lay down uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bore their disgrace with those who go down to the pit.

‘Do not speak out,’ so they speak out.

But if they do not speak out concerning these things,

Reproaches will not be turned back.