Isaiah 5:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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:

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  • Isa 2:9 : 9 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.
  • Isa 2:11 : 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.
  • Isa 2:17 : 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.
  • Isa 9:14-17 : 14 For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day. 15 The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail. 16 For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction. 17 For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 10:12 : 12 For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
  • Isa 10:33 : 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 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 24:2-4 : 2 And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it. 3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord. 4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 37:29 : 29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God. 5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
  • Jer 5:9 : 9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.
  • Jas 1:9-9 : 9 But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up; 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
  • Rev 6:15-16 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
  • Exod 9:17 : 17 Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?
  • Job 40:11-12 : 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.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

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    9 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

    10 Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

    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;

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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.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23 A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

  • Isa 26:5-6
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    5 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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    12 And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

  • Job 40:11-12
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    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.

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

  • Luke 14:11
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    11 For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

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    10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

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    16 But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

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

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    2 When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

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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.

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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.

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    12 Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

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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.

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

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    18 Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

    19 Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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    9 But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

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    15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

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    6 For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

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    10 This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

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    19 And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

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    15 For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

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    14 I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

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    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.

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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.

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    15 Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

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    34 He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.

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

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    6 The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.

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    15 And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.

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    15 And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.