"For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But this is the one to whom I will look favorably: to the one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my message.

He displayed his mighty power with his arm. He scattered people who were proud in mind and heart.

Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."

I tell you, this man, rather than the other one, went down to his home justified, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."

But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble."

In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."

But the proud

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, because of what happened to the Egyptians when they acted arrogantly against Israel."

dispensed the fury of your anger, made sure that you have humbled every proud person,

The haughty looks of mankind will be brought low, the lofty pride of human beings will be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted at that time.

"Son of Man, tell Tyre's Commander-in-Chief, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because your heart is arrogant, and because you keep saying, "I have taken my seat, I am a god, seated in God's seat right in the middle of the sea,' and because you're a man, and not a god, even though you pretend that you have a god-like heart"

In conclusion, I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and give glory to the King of heaven: For everything he does is true, his ways are just, and he is able to humble those who walk in pride."

But when he became arrogant and his spirit hardened, he was removed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.

The people kept shouting, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man!"

Afar off

You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you.

"Then he will say to those on his left, "Get away from me, you who are accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!

Such people will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction by being separated from the Lord's presence and from his glorious power

General references

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