Psalm 119:21

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Psalm 119:21

Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

Rebuked

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Rebuked

May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie;
But I shall meditate on Your precepts.

For though the Lord is exalted,
Yet He regards the lowly,
But the haughty He knows from afar.

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven when they dealt proudly against the people.”

“Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.

The

proud look of man will be abased

And the loftiness of man will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness.”

“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are a man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”

Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.