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== Confounded confused and ashamed ==

Confound as a verb can mean "cause surprise or confusion in (someone), especially by acting against their expectations" or "mix up (something) with something else so that the individual elements become difficult to distinguish."

In the [https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/confound.html King James Dictionary] it is defined as:
: 1. To mingle and blend different things, so that their forms or natures cannot be disinguished; to mix in a mass or crowd, so that individuals cannot be distinguished.
: 2. To throw into disorder.
: 3. To mix or blend, so as to occasion a mistake of one thing for another.
: 4. To perplex; to disturb the apprehension by indistinctness of ideas or words.
: 5. To abash; to throw the mind into disorder; to cast down; to make ashamed.
: 6. To perplex with terror; to terrify; to dismay; to astonish; to throw into consternation; to stupify with amazement.: 
: 7. To destroy; to overthrow.


The word confuse in the [https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/confuse.html same dictionary] is defined:
: 1. To mix or blend things, so that they cannot be distinguished.
: 2. To disorder; as, a sudden alarm confused the troops; a careless bookkeeper has confused the accounts.
: 3. To perplex; to render indistinct; as, the clamor confused his ideas.
: 4. To throw the mind into disorder; to cast down or abash; to cause to blush; to agitate by surprise, or shame; to disconcert.

We can also see the word [https://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-dictionary/ashame.html ashamed] defined:

: 1. Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt or a conviction of some criminal action or indecorous conduct, or by the exposure of some gross errors or misconduct, which the person is conscious must be wrong, and which tends to impair his honor or reputation. It is followed by of.
: 2. Confused by a consciousness of guilt or of inferiority; by the mortification of pride; by failure or disappointment.

As an adjective ''ashamed'' would always follow a noun but there are many different Hebrew words translated as forms of ''confused'', ''confounded'', and ''ashamed'' in the Old Testament. Many of them have to do with doing something ''shameful'' which leads to more confusion. 

In [[Psalms 35]]:4  "Let them be confounded<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> and put to shame<Ref name="kalam">{{03637}}</Ref> that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref> that devise my hurt."

Here the word  ''chapher''<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref> is translate ''confusion'' but in other verses it also is translated ''confounded'' and ''ashamed'' and even ''reproach''. In this verse there is the word ''buwsh''<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> which is commonly translated ''ashamed'' but also  ''shame'' 9 times and even ''confusion''. In this same verse we the phrase "let...put to shame using the word ''kalam''<Ref name="kalam">{{03637}}</Ref>. So all these words can include ideas like confounded, shamed and confused.

Some of these same words are repeated in [[Psalms 35]]:26  "Let them be ashamed<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> and brought to confusion[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>  together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me." Here we see a new word ''dishonour'' from a new Hebrew word ''këlimmah''<Ref name="klmmah">{{03639}}</Ref> that is related to ''Kalam''<Ref name="kalam">{{03637}}</Ref>.

Psalms 40:14  Let them be ashamed<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> and confounded[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref> together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalms 70:2  Let them be ashamed<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> and confounded[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref> that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Psalms 71:24  My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref>, for they are brought unto shame[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>, that seek my hurt.

Psalms 83:17  Let them be confounded<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>, and perish:



Proverbs 13:5  A righteous [man] hateth lying: but a wicked [man] is loathsome, and cometh to shame[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>.

Proverbs 19:26  He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>.

Isaiah 1:29  For they shall be ashamed<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref> for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Isaiah 24:23  Then the moon shall be confounded[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>, and the sun ashamed<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref>, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isaiah 33:9  The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref> [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits].

"Bashan and Carmel" are also mentioned in other verses in scripture concerning fruit and being fed.<Ref>Jeremiah 50:19  And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
[[Micah 7]]:14  Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Nahum 1:4  He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.</Ref>


Isaiah 54:4  Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref>: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>: for thou shalt forget the shame<Ref name="bosheth">{{01322}}</Ref> of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

Jeremiah 15:9  She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while [it was] yet day: she hath been ashamed<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref> and confounded[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:12  Your mother shall be sore confounded<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref>; she that bare you shall be ashamed[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

[[Micah 3]]:7  Then shall the seers be ashamed[buwsh]<Ref name="buwsh">{{0954}}</Ref>, and the diviners confounded[chapher]<Ref name="chapher">{{02659}}</Ref>: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God.