Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.

From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.

And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah

All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.

To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.

Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.

Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!

O Lord, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.

Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!

Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.

Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!

Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”

But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us.

All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face

There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

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.

You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.

Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!

Let them turn back because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!”

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!

May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.

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

And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.

Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord.

Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,

Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah

All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!

Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!

May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!

Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.

I cling to your testimonies, O Lord; let me not be put to shame!

I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame,

Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!

Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!

Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him his crown will shine.”

He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.

do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house.

Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.

everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.”

Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.”

The Folly of Idolatry

All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together.

All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in confusion together.

But Israel is saved by the Lord with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”

But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

“Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?

The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal.

I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.’”

The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together.”

The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.”

Judgment on Moab

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;

Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”

“Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.’

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

‘We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.’

They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.”

“Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

“The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,

They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.

To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.

To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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

When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame.

Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.

The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.

“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

Edom's Violence Against Jacob

Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.

the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.

Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.

You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.

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 Lord within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.

“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.

Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.

They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the Lord is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.

And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.

and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,

Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.

To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

Children of God

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.