but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.

Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

‘Cursed is anyone who dishonours their father or mother.’
Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

They repeated these words to David. But David said, ‘Do you think it is a small matter to become the king’s son-in-law? I’m only a poor man and little known.’

And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?”

Now since we are under obligation to the palace and it is not proper for us to see the king dishonoured, we are sending this message to inform the king,

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,

If I am guilty – woe to me!
Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,
for I am full of shame
and drowned in my affliction.

If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look on my affliction.

I hear a rebuke that dishonours me,
and my understanding inspires me to reply.

I hear censure that insults me,
and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

How long will you people turn my glory into shame?
How long will you love delusions and seek false gods? ,

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

May all who gloat over my distress
be put to shame and confusion;
may all who exalt themselves over me
be clothed with shame and disgrace.

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!

I live in disgrace all day long,
and my face is covered with shame

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

For I endure scorn for your sake,
and shame covers my face.

For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.

You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed;
all my enemies are before you.

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

May my accusers perish in shame;
may those who want to harm me
be covered with scorn and disgrace.

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

Cover their faces with shame,  Lord,
so that they will seek your name.

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

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace
and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

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

The wise inherit honour,
but fools get only shame.

The wise will inherit honor,
but fools get disgrace.

Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and his shame will never be wiped away.

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

Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults;
whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.

Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,
and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.

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

When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with the humble is wisdom.

Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant
than pretend to be somebody and have no food.

Better to be lowly and have a servant
than to play the great man and lack bread.

Fools show their annoyance at once,
but the prudent overlook an insult.

The vexation of a fool is known at once,
but the prudent ignores an insult.

Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame,
but whoever heeds correction is honoured.

Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction,
but whoever heeds reproof is honored.

When wickedness comes, so does contempt,
and with shame comes reproach.

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

To answer before listening –
that is folly and shame.

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

Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
quarrels and insults are ended.

Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out,
and quarreling and abuse will cease.

People will oppress each other –
man against man, neighbour against neighbour.
The young will rise up against the old,
the nobody against the honoured.

And the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.

But now the  Lord says: ‘Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab’s splendour and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.’

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.”

He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master’s house.

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.

But Pharaoh’s protection will be to your shame,
Egypt’s shade will bring you disgrace.

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

All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;
they will go off into disgrace together.

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

I offered my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from mocking and spitting.

I gave my back to those who strike,
and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
from disgrace and spitting.

Instead of your shame
you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours.

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.

Let us lie down in our shame,
and let our disgrace cover us.
We have sinned against the  Lord our God,
both we and our ancestors;
from our youth till this day
we have not obeyed the  Lord our God.’

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.”

I will pull up your skirts over your face
that your shame may be seen –

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

But the  Lord is with me like a mighty warrior;
so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced;
their dishonour will never be forgotten.

But the  Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
they will not overcome me.
They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.

The nations will hear of your shame;
your cries will fill the earth.
One warrior will stumble over another;
both will fall down together.’

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.”

‘We are disgraced,
for we have been insulted
and shame covers our faces,
because foreigners have entered
the holy places of the  Lord’s house.’

‘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.’

Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters. Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort.

that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done becoming a consolation to them.

Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign  Lord.”’

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, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword. All who had spread terror in the land of the living went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

“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.

A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

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.

‘All the princes of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

“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.

I will provide for them a land renowned for its crops, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.

And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: “This is what the Sovereign  Lord says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord  God: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.

Therefore this is what the Sovereign  Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn.

Therefore thus says the Lord  God: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.

No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign  Lord.”’

And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord  God.”

They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed towards me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid.

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 are not to come near to serve me as priests or come near any of my holy things or my most holy offerings; they must bear the shame of their detestable practices.

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.

The more priests there were,
the more they sinned against me;
they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful.

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

Even when their drinks are gone,
they continue their prostitution;
their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

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

‘Do not prophesy,’ their prophets say.
‘Do not prophesy about these things;
disgrace will not overtake us.’

“Do not preach”—thus they preach—
“one should not preach of such things;
disgrace will not overtake us.”

‘I am against you,’ declares the  Lord Almighty.
‘I will lift your skirts over your face.
I will show the nations your nakedness
and the kingdoms your shame.

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 will be filled with shame instead of glory.
Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed!
The cup from the  Lord’s right hand is coming round to you,
and disgrace will cover your glory.

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!

And they took offence at him.

But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honour except in his own town and in his own home.’

And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honour except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.’

And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”

When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.

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.

‘I am not possessed by a demon,’ said Jesus,‘but I honour my Father and you dishonour me.

Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

Then they left the presence of the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.