Verse 5

For He bowed down the dwellers on high, A city set on high He maketh low, He maketh it low unto the earth, He causeth it to come unto the dust,

Referenced Verses

  • Job 40:11-13 : 11 Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low. 12 See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.
  • Isa 2:12 : 12 For a day `is' to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,
  • Isa 13:11 : 11 And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.
  • Isa 14:13 : 13 And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.
  • Isa 25:11-12 : 11 And he spread out his hands in its midst, As spread out doth the swimmer to swim; And He hath humbled his excellency With the machinations of his hands. 12 And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down -- He hath made low, He hath caused `it' to come to the earth, -- unto dust.
  • Isa 32:19 : 19 And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.
  • Isa 47:1 : 1 Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `O tender and delicate one.'
  • Jer 50:31-32 : 31 Lo, I `am' against thee, O pride, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, For thy day hath come, the time of thy inspection. 32 And stumbled hath pride, And he hath fallen, and hath no raiser up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it hath devoured all round about him.
  • Jer 51:25-26 : 25 Lo, I `am' against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain. 26 And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
  • Jer 51:64 : 64 and said, Thus sink doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.' Hitherto `are' words of Jeremiah.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,