23 Bible Verses about Losing Honour
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Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not fitting for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore we have sent and certified to the king,
The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
When a wicked man comes, contempt also comes, and with disgrace, reproach.
Wounds and dishonor he shall get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
But now LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and of no account.
The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O madmen, shall be brought to silence. The sword shall pursue thee.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.
How LORD has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
The anger of LORD has scattered them. He will no more regard them. They did not respect the persons of the priests. They did not favor the elders.
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For thou shall no more be called tender and delicate.
For thus LORD has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne. And they took his glory from him,
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven. For the people of it shall mourn over it, and the priests of it, who rejoiced over it for the glory of it, because it has departed from it.
Thou are filled with shame, and not glory. Drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised. The cup of LORD's right hand shall come around to thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.
Let not those who wait for thee be put to shame through me, O lord LORD of hosts. Let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.
