For the High and Exalted One
who lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:
“I live in a high and holy place,
and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly
and revive the heart of the oppressed.

My hand made all these things,
and so they all came into being.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble, submissive in spirit,
and trembles at My word.

He has done a mighty deed with His arm;
He has scattered the proud
because of the thoughts of their hearts;

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.

But the proud

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.

“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 when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

Afar off

You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
You understand my thoughts from far away.

Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!

These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from His glorious strength

General references

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.