14 Bible Verses about Humbling The Proud

And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

They will fall down, but we will stand firm.

Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.

But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.

Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.

The Lord who commands armies planned it -- to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

Indeed, the Lord knocks down those who live in a high place, he brings down an elevated town; he brings it down to the ground, he throws it down to the dust.

The children of your oppressors will come bowing to you; all who treated you with disrespect will bow down at your feet. They will call you, 'The City of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.