Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where [is] their God?
Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on [me], to take away my reproach among men.
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from their company], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province [are] in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also [is] broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we [are] in, how Jerusalem [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Also I said, It [is] not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
Therefore [was] he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and [that] they might have [matter] for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people.
When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
He that wasteth [his] father, [and] chaseth away [his] mother, [is] a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments [are] good.
[He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
[As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
He shall send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before thee.
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;
And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
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