'High' in the Bible

The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;

And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.

The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.

In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.

Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.

Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do.

The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.

This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.

The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.

He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?

You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!

Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.

See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.

You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.