Ezekiel 16:54
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New International Version (©2011)
so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then you will be truly ashamed of everything you have done, for your sins make them feel good in comparison.

English Standard Version (©2001)
that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
so you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did when you comforted them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But you'll continue to bear your own reproach and be humiliated for everything that you've done. You'll be a comfort to them.

NET Bible (©2006)
so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You will have to suffer disgrace and be ashamed of everything you have done, including comforting them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That you may bear your own shame, and may be disgraced in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them.

American King James Version
That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

American Standard Version
that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, comforting them.

Darby Bible Translation
that thou mayest bear thy confusion, and mayest be confounded for all that thou hast done, in that thou comfortest them.

English Revised Version
that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

Webster's Bible Translation
That thou mayest bear thy own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.

World English Bible
that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

Young's Literal Translation
So that thou dost bear thy shame, And hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done, In thy comforting them.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 54. - Even in that restoration, however, there should be a further clement of humiliation. Judah should be a comfort (see Ezekiel 14:22) to those who should see her placed lower than themselves, content, at last, to lake the lowest place, humbling herself that she might be (ver. 61) afterwards exalted.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That thou mayest bear thine own shame,.... So long as the captivity remains; even until Sodom and Samaria, the Gentiles, and the ten tribes, are called and converted:

and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done; or, "for all that thou hast done" (e); for and because of all the abominable sins they had been guilty of:

in that thou art a comfort to them; to Sodom and Samaria; countenancing them in their sins; justifying their iniquities, and strengthening their hands in their wickedness, by doing the same, and greater abominations; or in partaking of the same punishment with them, captivity; this being a kind of solace to them, that they were not punished alone; so Jarchi.

(e) "propter omnia quae fecisti", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

54. bear thine own shame—by being put on a level with those whom thou hast so much despised.

thou art a comfort unto them—since they see thee as miserable as themselves. It is a kind of melancholy "comfort" to those chastised to see others as sorely punished as themselves (Eze 14:22, 23).

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Judgment on Jerusalem
…53When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of your captives in the middle of them: 54That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them. 55When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then you and your daughters shall return to your former estate. …

Jeremiah 2:26 "As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the people of Israel are disgraced-- they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets.
Ezekiel 14:22 Yet there will be some survivors--sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought on Jerusalem--every disaster I have brought on it.
Ezekiel 14:23 You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD."
Ezekiel 16:53 "'However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them,
Ezekiel 16:55 And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.
Ezekiel 32:24 "Elam is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. All who had spread terror in the land of the living went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.