Shame imagery uses blushing, reproach, confusion of face, or not-ashamed language to picture moral exposure, disgrace, repentance, or vindicated confidence.
Shame imagery uses blushing, reproach, confusion of face, or not-ashamed language to picture moral exposure, disgrace, repentance, or vindicated confidence.
A moral-status motif in which shame, blush, reproach, confusion of face, disgrace, or not-ashamed expressions signify guilt exposed, covenant humiliation, penitence, enemy defeat, or confidence in God’s vindicating word and gospel.
These examples show how Shame, Blushing, Reproach, and Confounded-Face Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face
Blushing and lowered-face imagery express repentant awareness of covenant guilt.
let me not be ashamed
The psalmist asks that trust in the LORD not end in public disgrace.
the confusion of my face
Confusion-of-face imagery portrays communal humiliation under reproach.
shame hath covered my face
Covered-face shame depicts the public cost of suffering reproach for God’s sake.
they shall be ashamed, and also confounded
Idol-makers are pictured as publicly disgraced before the living God.
we lie down in our shame
Shame imagery becomes a posture of confessed covenant rebellion.
neither could they blush
The inability to blush signals hardened moral insensibility.
unto us confusion of faces
Daniel confesses exile as deserved covenant shame before the righteous Lord.
I am not ashamed of the gospel
Not-ashamed language marks confident allegiance to God’s saving power in Christ.
I am not ashamed
Paul’s not-ashamed confession contrasts suffering reproach with trust in Christ’s keeping power.
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