22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep(A) to be slaughtered.(B)

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22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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For I endure scorn(A) for your sake,(B)
    and shame covers my face.(C)
I am a foreigner to my own family,
    a stranger to my own mother’s children;(D)
for zeal for your house consumes me,(E)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.(F)

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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

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10 To whom can I speak and give warning?
    Who will listen(A) to me?
Their ears are closed[a](B)
    so they cannot hear.(C)
The word(D) of the Lord is offensive to them;
    they find no pleasure in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 6:10 Hebrew uncircumcised

10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

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