Jeremiah 48:29

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We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.

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  • Isa 16:6 : 6 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.
  • Ps 138:6 : 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.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
  • Prov 18:12 : 12 Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.
  • Prov 30:13 : 13 There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
  • Isa 2:11-12 : 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;
  • 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.
  • Zeph 2:8-9 : 8 My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land. 9 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage. 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. 11 The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations. 12 And you Ethiopians will be put to death by my sword. 13 And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land. 14 And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep. 15 This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.
  • Luke 14:11 : 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.
  • Jas 4:6 : 6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
  • Job 40:10-12 : 10 See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox. 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 16:6-7
    2 verses
    88%

    6We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

    7For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.

  • Jer 48:38-43
    6 verses
    81%

    38On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.

    39How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.

    40For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.

    41Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

    42And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.

    43Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.

  • Zeph 2:10
    77%

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

  • Jer 48:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    30I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.

    31For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.

  • Jer 48:1-5
    5 verses
    76%

    1Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.

    2The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

    3There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;

    4Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.

    5For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears.

  • Jer 48:24-26
    3 verses
    76%

    24And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.

    25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.

    26Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.

  • Jer 48:13-17
    5 verses
    75%

    13And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.

    14How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?

    15He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.

    16The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.

    17All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!

  • Jer 48:20
    75%

    20Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

  • Jer 48:28
    74%

    28O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.

  • Zeph 2:8
    74%

    8My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.

  • Jer 48:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.

    36So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.

  • Obad 1:3
    73%

    3You 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?

  • Isa 16:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

    13This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.

    14But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.

  • Jer 13:9
    72%

    9The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 48:9
    71%

    9Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.

  • Jer 49:16
    71%

    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.

  • Isa 2:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11The 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.

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

  • Jer 48:11
    71%

    11From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.

  • Isa 15:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.

    2The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

  • Ezek 25:9
    71%

    9For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.

  • Prov 16:18
    71%

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

  • Num 22:3
    70%

    3And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

  • Jer 48:47
    70%

    47But still, I will let the fate of Moab be changed in the last days, says the Lord.

  • Isa 9:9
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    9And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,

  • Isa 2:17
    70%

    17And 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.

  • Jer 13:15
    70%

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

  • Prov 18:12
    70%

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

  • Isa 25:10
    69%

    10For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.