Isaiah 40:4

Comfort For God's People

³ A voice cries out, "In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God. ⁴ Every valley must be elevated, and every mountain and hill leveled. The rough terrain will become a level plain, the rugged landscape a wide valley. ⁵ The splendor of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the Lord has decreed it."

Be Exalted

Lifted Up

Isaiah 45:2

"I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

Ezekiel 21:26

this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tear off the turban, take off the crown! Things must change! Exalt the lowly, bring down the proud!

Luke 3:5

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low, and the crooked will be made straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth,

1 Samuel 2:8

He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes and to bestow on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them.

Job 40:11-13

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

Psalm 113:7-8

He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

Isaiah 2:12-15

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;

Isaiah 42:11

Let the desert and its cities shout out, the towns where the nomads of Kedar live! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.

Isaiah 42:15-16

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

Ezekiel 17:24

All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!'"

Luke 1:52-53

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;

Luke 18:14

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;