Thematic Bible: Self-exaltation, the folly of
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Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"
Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
Don't exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men; for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.
Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God --
Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
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