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• You know well the insults, the shame and disgrace I endure. Every one of my oppressors is known to you. (Psalms 69, 19)

• and all day long my tongue muses on your saving justice. Shame and disgrace on those intent to harm me! (Psalms 71, 24)

• Let my accusers be clothed in disgrace, enveloped in a cloak of shame. (Psalms 109, 29)

• There was no end to the rejoicing among the people, since the disgrace inflicted by the gentiles had been effaced. (1 Maccabees 4, 58)

• and, because I had played this part for the sake of a paltry brief spell of life, might themselves be led astray on my account; I should only bring defilement and disgrace on my old age. (2 Maccabees 6, 25)

• Flying into a passion, he resolved to make the Jews pay for the disgrace inflicted by those who had routed him, and with this in mind he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping and get the journey over. But the sentence of Heaven was already hanging over him. In his pride, he had said, 'When I reach Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a mass grave for the Jews.' (2 Maccabees 9, 4)

• Pride comes first; disgrace soon follows; with the humble is wisdom found. (Proverbs 11, 2)

• Do not grow too high and mighty, for fear you fall and cover yourself in disgrace; for the Lord would then reveal your secrets and overthrow you before the whole community for not having practised fear of the Lord and for having a heart full of deceit. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 30)

• Do not make a boast of disgrace overtaking your father, your father's disgrace reflects no honour on you; (Ecclesiasticus 3, 10)

• Both honour and disgrace come from talking, the tongue is its owner's downfall. (Ecclesiasticus 5, 13)

• Lying is an abominable habit, the liar's disgrace lasts for ever. (Ecclesiasticus 20, 26)

• An idler is like a stone covered in filth, everyone whistles at his disgrace. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 1)