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, because they have wronged me [with] lies. As for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

Though Yahweh [is] high, yet he sees [the] lowly, but [the] proud he perceives at a distance.

And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, {even in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites}."

Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all [the] proud, and humble them.

The {haughty eyes} of humanity will be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against {Mount Zion} and Jerusalem, "I will punish the {arrogance} of the king of Assyria and {his haughtiness}."

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I [am] a god; I sit [in the] seat of [the] gods, I sit in [the] heart of [the] seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like [the] heart of a god.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works [are] truth, and his ways [are] justice and that 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 look! The day [is] about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every {evildoer} will be stubble. The coming day will consume them," says Yahweh of hosts. "It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

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

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

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all [of you] clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.