81 verses about shame

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”

then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”

When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

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

Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.”

“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, “Aha! Aha!”

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent.”

The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

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

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.

Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which will not be forgotten.’”

Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”

Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

“There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

“There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which 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.

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”

They will bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid,

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

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.” I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her. But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.”

The disposition of a liar is dishonor; And his shame is with him continually.

A slothful man is compared to a stone that is defiled; And every one will hiss him out in his disgrace.

A drunken woman causes great wrath; And she will not cover her own shame.

Wherefore show reverence to my word: For it is not good to retain every kind of shame; And not all things are approved by all in good faith.

Keep a strict watch over a headstrong daughter, Lest she make you a laughing stock to your enemies, A byword in the city and notorious among the people, And shame you before the multitude.

And now we can’t open our mouth; shame and reproach have befallen your servants, and those who worship you.

But when the elders had told their tale, the servants were greatly ashamed: for there was never such a report made of Susanna.

And the land was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was clothed with shame.

The office however he did not get, but, receiving shame as the end of his conspiracy, he passed again a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites.

I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face;

Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.

The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned while living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.

Forasmuch as the Lord will exactly search out all your works, and he will put you all to shame.

And when your sins are brought forth before men, you⌃ shall be ashamed, and your own iniquities shall stand as your accusers in that day.

and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly, and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.