Isaiah 26:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.

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  • Job 40:11-13 : 11 His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach. 12 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together. 13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.
  • Isa 2:12 : 12 For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
  • Isa 13:11 : 11 And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
  • Isa 14:13 : 13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
  • Isa 25:11-12 : 11 And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs. 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
  • Isa 32:19 : 19 But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.
  • Isa 47:1 : 1 Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
  • Jer 50:31-32 : 31 See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you. 32 And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.
  • Jer 51:25-26 : 25 See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain. 26 And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.
  • Jer 51:64 : 64 And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.

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    12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Isa 26:6
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    6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

  • Isa 5:15
    79%

    15 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:

  • Ps 147:6
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    6 The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.

  • Isa 2:11-12
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    11 The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

    12 For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

  • Isa 2:17-18
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    17 And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

    18 And the images will never be seen again.

  • Job 40:11-12
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    76%

    11 His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.

    12 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

  • 1 Sam 2:6-8
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    6 The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

    7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

    8 Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

  • Obad 1:3-4
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    3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?

    4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

  • Job 5:11
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    11 Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

  • Ps 113:6-7
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    6 Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?

    7 He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

  • Ezek 26:20
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    20 Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

  • Mic 1:3-4
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    3 For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.

    4 And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

  • Isa 25:5
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    5 As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.

  • Ps 138:6
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    6 Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

  • Isa 32:19
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    19 But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

  • Isa 40:23
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    23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

  • Jer 49:16
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    16 ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

  • Ps 10:10
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    10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

  • Isa 14:15
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    15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • Luke 1:52
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    52 He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.

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    33 See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.

  • Isa 25:2
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    2 For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.

  • 2 Sam 22:28
    72%

    28 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low.

  • Mic 3:12
    71%

    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Prov 29:23
    71%

    23 A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

  • Lam 2:2
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    2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

  • Job 12:19
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    19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

  • Ezek 26:11-12
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    11 Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

    12 They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Isa 29:4
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    4 And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

  • Isa 28:2
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    2 See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.

  • Ps 18:27
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    27 For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

  • Isa 33:5
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    5 The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.

  • Isa 23:9
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    9 It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

  • Job 22:29
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    29 For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

  • Ezek 21:26
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    26 This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.

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    23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

  • Jer 50:32
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    32 And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.

  • Ezek 26:4
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    4 And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.