Quotes About Humiliation

When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings and priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth and put to the sword and captivity, to pillage and humiliation, as we are this day.

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egyptís shame.

roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.

Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.