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 counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

An abomination to Jehovah is every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

and when his heart was high, and his spirit was strong to act proudly, he hath been caused to come down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory they have caused to pass away from him,

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

because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.

And dwelt hath a foreigner in Ashdod, And I have cut off the excellency of the Philistines.

Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst.