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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Yahweh of hosts, hath purposed it, - To humble the pride of all beauty, To make of little esteem all the honourable of the earth.

These six things, doth Yahweh hate, yea, seven, are the abomination of his soul: -

An abomination to Yahweh, is every one who is haughty in heart, hand to hand, he shall not be held innocent.

Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and extolling and honouring the King of the Heavens, all whose works, are truth, and, his ways, right; and, them who walk in pride, he is able to abase,

But, when uplifted was his heart and, his spirit, became obstinate so as to act arrogantly, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and, his dignity, took they from him;

And, whoever shall exalt himself, shall be, abased, and, whoever shall abase himself, shall be, exalted,

Because, everyone who exalteth himself, shall be abased; and, he that abaseth himself, shall be exalted?

Howbeit he giveth, greater, favour. Wherefore it saith - God, against the haughty, arrayeth himself, Whereas, unto the lowly, he giveth favour.

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Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!

I will lay waste mountains, and hills, And all their vegetation, will I wither, - And I will make rivers to be shores, And lakes, will I dry up:

And there shall be seated a half-breed in Ashdod, - So will I cut off the arrogance of the Philistines;

Lo! a day, cometh, pertaining to Yahweh, - when apportioned shall be thy spoil in thy midst;