25 Bible Verses about Losing Honour

He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.

You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground.

From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.

Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king's dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,

The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.

When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.

He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

But now the LORD has spoken, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble."

the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.

And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.

How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

The LORD himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to 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 you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.

therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird-- no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests-- those who rejoiced over it and over its glory-- for it has departed from them.

You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!

The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.

Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.