17 Bible Verses about Abasing People

You rescue the humble. You find ways to humiliate the proud.

You save humble people, but you humiliate the proud.

A man's pride will bring him low. The humble in spirit retain honor.

Better that he says: Come up here than you be put down in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

From deep in the earth, you will call out for help. Your voice will sound like a mumble (indistinct voice) from out of the dust. It will be faint like a whisper.

The wise in heart will accept the law but a babbling fool will fall.

He who winks the eye [in a jesture of malice] causes trouble. A babbling fool will fall.

then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit (grave), to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth. It will be like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit (grave), so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

When you go, I will spread my net over you. I will snatch you out of the air like a bird. I will punish you for all the evil things you have done.

Jehovah gives relief to those who are oppressed. He brings wicked people down to the ground.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the corruption of the grave. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

God is the Judge; He brings down one and exalts another.

I was fiercely attacked and was being defeated, but Jehovah helped me.

But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit.

But the righteousness of faith speaks this way: Do not say in your heart: 'who will ascend to heaven? That is, to bring Christ down;

Will you, Capernaum, be exalted into heaven? You will go down into the grave. If the mighty works had been done in Sodom, which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.

He removes rulers from their thrones and exalts the humble.