Isaiah 2:12

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Summary

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

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Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to profane the pride of all glory, to bring to nought all the honourable of the earth.

These six things doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Every proud heart is an abomination to Jehovah: hand for hand, he shall not be held innocent.

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;

And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.

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Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines;

Behold, the day cometh for Jehovah, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.