Blushing
Blushing in Scripture is a sign of a conscience still awake. Ezra, hearing of Israel’s sins, prays “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee” (Ezra 9:6). Jeremiah says the opposite of the people he is sent to: asked if they felt shame at their wickedness, he answers “nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush” (Jeremiah 6:15; 8:12). One person burns with it and the others have lost it. Ezra 9 shows what honest shame sounds like in prayer.
3 verses
Ezra
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Jeremiah
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.