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

Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause, but I will meditate in thy precepts.

For the LORD, who is high and lifted up, looks upon the humble, but the proud he does not know.

Then Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and said unto him, Thus hath the LORD God of the Hebrews said, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go that they may serve me.

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they dealt proudly he prevailed against them.

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and behold every one that is proud and bring him down.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will come upon the fruit of the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and upon the glory of his high looks.

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted thee up and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou art man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and build up and glorify the King of heaven because all his works are truth, and his ways judgment: and he is able to humble those that walk with arrogance.

And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of the hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for anyone that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

Likewise, young people, be subject to the elders in such a manner that you are all subject to one another. Be clothed with humility of will, for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.