'Shame' in the Bible

You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.

Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.

Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

I have been true to your unchanging word; O Lord, do not put me to shame.

Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.

So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame; for I have faith in your word.

So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.

Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.

Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.

The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.

The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.

Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.

So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.

He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.

The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.

Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.

The king has pleasure in a servant who does wisely, but his wrath is against him who is a cause of shame.

A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.

Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.

He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.

Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:

But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.

So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.

For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.

And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.

All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.

But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.

Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.

The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.

For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.

Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.

Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.

Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.

For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.

O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.

For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.

I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:

Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.