I was pushed to read a passage of Scripture today. The reference to it came from a devotional book.
Here is the King James Version version:
Oh Lord, righteousness belongeth unto Thee, but unto us confusion of faces. – Daniel 9:7a
Confusion of faces? Other versions talk about shame. Others combine the two.
So I checked the Septuagint (the Greek version of the Old Testament). That has faces as well! And the Hebrew also uses “face” in the phrase.
And so I began to think (and bounce this off our associate pastor). If God is the one that is righteous, when we look in that direction there is no sense of being two faced or confused about what is right. The problem is with us as people. We have a confusion on our faces. And as we look at one another, there is also a confusion on our faces. We are shamed because we do not know right from wrong – our faces show it!
Early signs that the Bible understood “body language?”