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Jeremiah 3:24

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

KJV

Confusio comedit laborem patrum nostrorum ab adolescentia nostra : greges eorum, et armenta eorum, filios eorum, et filias eorum.

Vulgate

ἡ δὲ αἰσχύνη κατανάλωσεν τοὺς μόχθους τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν ἀπὸ νεότητος ἡμῶν, τὰ πρόβατα αὐτῶν καὶ τοὺς μόσχους αὐτῶν, καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτῶν καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας αὐτῶν.

LXX

But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

ASV

וְ/הַ/בֹּ֗שֶׁת אָֽכְלָ֛ה אֶת יְגִ֥יעַ אֲבוֹתֵ֖י/נוּ מִ/נְּעוּרֵ֑י/נוּ אֶת צֹאנָ/ם֙ וְ/אֶת בְּקָרָ֔/ם אֶת בְּנֵי/הֶ֖ם וְ/אֶת בְּנוֹתֵי/הֶֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בֹ֖שֶׁת
bsht
noun · 31×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
בָּקָר֙
bqr
noun · 180×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
י
y
noun · 46×
יְגִ֥יעַ
ygy'
noun · 16×
ם
m
verb · 811×
צֹ֣אן
ts'n
noun · 269×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Ezra 9:6 — And 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.
  • Hos 9:10 — I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abom