Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

The high ones

Bible References

Lop

Isaiah 10:16
Therefore shall the LORD of Hosts send him poverty in his riches, and burn up his power, as it were with a fire.
Isaiah 37:24
Thou with thy servants hast blasphemed the LORD and thus holdest thou of thyself, I cover the high mountains, and sides of Lebanon with my horsemen. And there will I cut down the high Cedar trees and the fairest Fir trees. I will up into the height of it, and into the chiefest of his timber woods.
2 Kings 19:21
This is the thing that the LORD sayeth of him: He hath despised thee, O virgin daughter of Zion; he hath shaken his head at thee, thou daughter of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the LORD sent an angel and destroyed all the men of war and the lords and captains of the host of the king of Assyria, that he turned his face, with shame, towards his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, he was there overthrown with the sword - even by them that issued out of his bowels.

The high ones

Amos 2:9
"'Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, that was as high as the Cedar trees, and as strong as the oaks: notwithstanding I destroyed his fruit from above and his root from under.

And the haughty

Isaiah 2:11
which casteth down the high looks of presumptuous persons, and bringeth low the pride of man, and the LORD only shall be exalted in that day.
Job 40:11
pour out thy indignation of thy wrath; see that thou cast down all the proud,
Daniel 4:37
Then did I, Nebuchadnezzar, love, magnify and praise the King of heaven: for all his works are true, and his ways right. As for those that go on proudly, he is able to bring them down.
Luke 14:11
For whosoever exalteth himself, shall be brought low. And he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted."

General references

Psalm 37:36
But when I went by, lo, he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found.
Isaiah 2:13
upon all high and stout Cedar trees of Lebanon, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 33:3
Grant that the people may flee at the anger of thy voice, and that at thine upstanding the Gentiles may be scattered abroad;
Luke 3:9
Now also is the axe laid unto the root of the trees: So that every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire."