Isaiah 2:17

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The pride of mankind will be bowed down, and human arrogance will be humbled. The Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

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  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The haughty eyes of mankind will be brought low, and humanity's pride will be humbled. The Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
  • Isa 13:11 : 11 I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the ruthless.
  • Jer 48:29-30 : 29 We have heard of Moab's pride—so very proud—his arrogance, pride, conceit, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his fury, declares the LORD, but it is empty; his boasts accomplish nothing.
  • Ezek 28:2-7 : 2 Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: Because your heart has grown proud, and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas,” but you are a man and not a god, though you have set your heart as if it were the heart of a god— 3 Indeed, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you. 4 By your wisdom and understanding, you have made wealth for yourself, and you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trading, you have increased your wealth, and your heart has grown proud because of your wealth. 6 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have set your heart as if it were the heart of a god, 7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

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  • Isa 2:9-13
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    9So mankind is brought low, and humans are humbled—do not forgive them.

    10Go into the rock and hide in the dust from the dread of the Lord and from the splendor of His majesty.

    11The haughty eyes of mankind will be brought low, and humanity's pride will be humbled. The Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

    12For the day of the Lord of hosts will come against all who are proud and arrogant, against all who are exalted—they will be humbled.

    13It will come against all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and against all the oaks of Bashan.

  • Isa 5:15-16
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    15So humanity will be humbled, and people will be brought low; even the eyes of the arrogant will be humbled.

    16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted through justice, and the Holy God will show Himself holy through righteousness.

  • 18The idols will completely vanish.

  • 33Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, and the lofty ones will be humbled.

  • 5For He has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city; He lays it low, to the ground, to the dust.

  • 23A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

  • 16It will come against all the ships of Tarshish and against all the beautiful vessels.

  • Job 40:11-12
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    11Scatter the outbursts of your anger, and look at every proud one and bring him low.

    12Look at every proud person and humble him, and crush the wicked where they stand.

  • 12He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.

  • 21On that day, the Lord will punish the host of the heavens above and the kings of the earth below.

  • 12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

  • Obad 1:3-4
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    3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; you say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"

    4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

  • 6Though the Lord is exalted, he cares for the lowly, but the proud he knows from afar.

  • 6The LORD lifts up the humble; He brings the wicked down to the ground.

  • Zeph 2:10-11
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    10This will be their lot in return for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of Hosts.

    11The Lord will be awesome to them when He destroys all the gods of the earth. People from every shore and nation will bow down to Him, each from their own place.

  • 9The LORD of Hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all glory, to humble all who are honored on the earth.

  • 26For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the head of the two ways, to seek omens. He shakes arrows, consults idols, and looks at the liver.

  • 11On that day, you will not be ashamed of all your deeds by which you rebelled against me. For then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty on my holy mountain.

  • 6He stoops down to look upon the heavens and the earth.

  • 11'For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.'

  • 11I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the ruthless.

  • 12Before destruction, the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.

  • Jer 50:31-32
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    31Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one, declares the Sovereign LORD of Hosts, for your day has come, the time for Me to punish you.

    32The arrogant one will stumble and fall, and no one will help him up. I will set fire to his cities, and it will devour all around him.

  • 27To the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

  • 3'Do not keep speaking so arrogantly or let proud words come out of your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him deeds are weighed.'

  • 9Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. Selah.

  • 52He has brought down rulers from their thrones and exalted the humble.

  • 4Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.

  • 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

  • 28You save a humble people, but your eyes are set against the proud to bring them low.

  • 2When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the humble comes wisdom.

  • 7'The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He humbles and He exalts.'

  • 9Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

  • 15For this is what the high and exalted One says—he who lives forever, whose name is holy: 'I dwell in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'

  • Jer 49:15-16
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    15Look, I have made you small among the nations, despised among mankind.

    16The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

  • 21They will go into the crevices of the rocks and the clefts of the crags, hiding from the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to terrify the earth.

  • 3For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling place; He will descend and tread on the high places of the earth.

  • 15But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

  • 12When the Lord has finished all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will punish the pride of the king of Assyria's heart and the glory of his haughty eyes.

  • 10"Now I will arise," says the LORD. "Now I will be exalted; now I will lift myself up."