Where It Begins
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28 Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come into my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.
But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Though his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,
For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;
but he saves the lowly.
that he may turn man aside from his deed
and conceal pride from a man;
There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.
and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
His back is made of rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.
He sees everything that is high;
he is king over all the sons of pride.”
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him;
all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
They close their hearts to pity;
with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
Let the lying lips be mute,
which speak insolently against the righteous
in pride and contempt.
Love the Lord, all you his saints!
The Lord preserves the faithful
but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me,
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
Blessed is the man who makes
the Lord his trust,
who does not turn to the proud,
to those who go astray after a lie!
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,
Therefore pride is their necklace;
violence covers them as a garment.
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
and perverted speech I hate.
By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back,
but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
One’s pride will bring him low,
but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
and all the people will know,
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
I will punish the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
We have heard of the pride of Moab—
how proud he is!—
of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;
in his idle boasting he is not right.
The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
to defile the pompous pride of all glory,
to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the Lord will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands.
Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
will be trodden underfoot;
“Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
But if you will not listen,
my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
We have heard of the pride of Moab—
he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
and the haughtiness of his heart.
His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,
“Thus says the Lord:
Those who support Egypt shall fall,
and her proud might shall come down;
from Migdol to Syene
they shall fall within her by the sword,
declares the Lord God.
At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark,
when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,
and her proud might shall come to an end in her;
she shall be covered by a cloud,
and her daughters shall go into captivity.
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,
All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.
I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations.
“They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,
and all its multitude shall perish.
And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
Judah also shall stumble with them.
The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek him, for all this.
The Lord God has sworn by himself, declares the Lord, the God of hosts:
“I abhor the pride of Jacob
and hate his strongholds,
and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
“Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,
in your lofty dwelling,
who say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the ground?”
This shall be their lot in return for their pride,
because they taunted and boasted
against the people of the Lord of hosts.
“On that day you shall not be put to shame
because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;
for then I will remove from your midst
your proudly exultant ones,
and you shall no longer be haughty
in my holy mountain.
a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod,
and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
He shall pass through the sea of troubles
and strike down the waves of the sea,
and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up.
The pride of Assyria shall be laid low,
and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
The sound of the wail of the shepherds,
for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of the lions,
for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.