¹ O Lord, reflect on ²  what has happened to us; consider ³  and look at ⁴  our disgrace.

“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the Lord.

They have sex with their father’s wife within you; ¹  they violate women during their menstrual period within you. ² 

I will pelt you with filth; ¹  I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.

Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

Again and again ¹  they struck him on the head with a staff ²  and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” ¹ 

Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered disgraces his head.

It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, ¹  and yet true;

to obey ¹  this command ²  without fault or failure until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

For God wants you ¹  to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

The one caught with the riches ¹  must be burned up ²  along with all who belong to him, because he violated the Lord’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s ¹  concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. ²  But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

David asked the men who were standing near him, “What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? ¹  For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”

Messengers ¹  came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho ²  until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”

A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, ¹  a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner’s brand will replace beauty.

At that time ¹  the sovereign master will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River, ²  the king of Assyria, to shave the head and the pubic hair; ³  it will also shave off the beard.