Psalms 40:14

40:14 May those who are trying to snatch away my life

be totally embarrassed and ashamed! ¹ 

May those who want to harm me

be turned back and ashamed! ² 

Isaiah 41:11

41:11 Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated;

your adversaries ³  will be reduced to nothing ⁴  and perish.

Isaiah 45:16-17

45:16 They will all be ashamed and embarrassed;

those who fashion idols will all be humiliated. ⁵ 

45:17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; ⁶ 

you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. ⁷ 

Isaiah 50:7

50:7 But the sovereign Lord helps me,

so I am not humiliated.

For that reason I am steadfastly resolved; ⁸ 

I know I will not be put to shame.

Isaiah 54:4

54:4 Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame!

Don’t be intimidated, ⁹  for you will not be humiliated!

You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth;

you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment. ¹⁰ 

[40:14]  ¹ tn Heb “may they be embarrassed and ashamed together, the ones seeking my life to snatch it away.”

[40:14]  ² tn The four prefixed verbal forms in this verse (“may those…be…embarrassed and ashamed…may those…be turned back and ashamed”) are understood as jussives. The psalmist is calling judgment down on his enemies.

[41:11]  ³ tn Heb “the men of your strife”; NASB “those who contend with you.”

[41:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “like nothing”; NAB “come to nought.”

[45:16]  ⁵ tn “together they will walk in humiliation, the makers of images.”

[45:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “Israel will be delivered by the Lord [with] a permanent deliverance.”

[45:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “you will not be ashamed and you will not be humiliated for ages of future time.”

[50:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “Therefore I set my face like flint.”

[54:4]  ⁹ tn Or “embarrassed”; NASB “humiliated…disgraced.”

[54:4]  ¹⁰ tn Another option is to translate, “the disgrace of our widowhood” (so NRSV). However, the following context (vv. 6-7) refers to Zion’s husband, the Lord, abandoning her, not dying. This suggests that an אַלְמָנָה (’almanah) was a woman who had lost her husband, whether by death or abandonment.