²² Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.

⁸ Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

²⁰ What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.

³⁹ Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.

¹⁴ If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.

¹⁵ Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business;

¹⁶ But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.

¹⁶ Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.

¹⁷ Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

¹³ Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.

³ Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

⁴ For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

⁴² So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame; for I have faith in your word.

¹⁹ Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)

²⁰ Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

⁹ You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.

¹⁰ Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.

¹¹ The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public.

¹⁰ The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

⁶ And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

³ Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

² How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

³ Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

²⁰ My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

⁷ And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:

⁸ The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.

³⁹ And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

¹⁰ And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.