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Psalms 44:15
All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God, reporting how the community has become a laughingstock among nations and detailing his own daily experience of disgrace.
The words — The Hebrew כְּלִמָתִי (kelimatî) means "my disgrace," and בֹשֶׁת (bosheth) means "shame." The verb כִּסָּתְנִי (kisatênî) literally states "it has covered [my face]."
The thread — The motif of shame covering the face appears in Psalms 69:7, though the Hebrew wording differs from Psalms 44:15. The theme of national humiliation and divine judgment also surfaces in 2 Chronicles 32:21.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of how public reproach physically and emotionally weighs on the individual. It requires the reader to acknowledge disgrace as a tangible burden rather than a mere metaphor.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Cross-references
- Psalms 69:7 For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
- Joshua 7:7 “O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
- 2 Chronicles 32:21 and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.
- Psalms 71:13 May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
- Jeremiah 51:51 “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
- Ezra 9:6 and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
- Psalms 89:45 You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
- Jeremiah 3:25 Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”