<p class="poetry">Will your idle talk<n id="1" /> reduce people to silence,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and will no one rebuke<n id="3" /> you when you mock?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">These ten times<n id="1" /> you have been reproaching me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you are not ashamed to attack me!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But<n id="1" /> you rejected and embarrassed us!p> <p class="poetry">You did not go into battle with our armies.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame!p> <p class="poetry">Let the oppressed and poor praise your name!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who keeps the law<n id="1" /> is a discerning child,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but a companion of gluttons brings shame<n id="3" /> to his parents.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated!p> <p class="poetry">May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">May those who are trying to snatch away my lifep> <p class="poetry">be totally embarrassed and ashamed!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">May those who want to harm mep> <p class="poetry">be turned back and ashamed!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">May those who are trying to take my lifep> <p class="poetry">be embarrassed and ashamed!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">May those who want to harm mep> <p class="poetry">be turned back and ashamed!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not go out hastily to litigation,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or<n id="2" /> what will you do afterwardp> <p class="poetry">when your neighbor puts you to shame?p>

<p class="poetry">Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated;p> <p class="poetry">your adversaries<n id="1" /> will be reduced to nothing<n id="2" /> and perish.p>

<p class="poetry">They will all be ashamed and embarrassed;p> <p class="poetry">those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Israel will be delivered once and for all by the <sc>Lordsc>;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">That is why the rains have been withheld,p> <p class="poetry">and the spring rains have not come.p> <p class="poetry">Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.p>

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

When she got up to gather grain, Boaz told<n id="1" /> his male servants, &#8220;Let her gather grain even among<n id="2" /> the bundles! Don&#8217;t chase her off!<n id="3" />

These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together<n id="1" /> in the field.

Messengers<n id="1" /> told David what had happened,<n id="2" /> so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, &#8220;Stay in Jericho<n id="3" /> until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.&#8221;p>

That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

<p class="bodytext">They slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and Levites were ashamed, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt sacrifices to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

I prayed,<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.