Psalm 119:21

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Summary

Psalm 119:21

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

Rebuked

Bible References

Rebuked

Let the arrogant be put to shame
for slandering me with lies;
I will meditate on Your precepts.

Though the Lord is exalted,
He takes note of the humble;
but He knows the haughty from a distance.

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship Me.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods, because He did wonders when the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel.”

Unleash your raging anger;
look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Human pride will be humbled,
and the loftiness of men will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.

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

“But you his successor, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

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

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

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:

God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.

In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.