For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

The Lord who commands armies will be exalted when he punishes, the sovereign God's authority will be recognized when he judges.

The Lord is exalted, indeed, he lives in heaven; he fills Zion with justice and fairness.

"Now I will rise up," says the Lord. "Now I will exalt myself; now I will magnify myself.

O Lord, you are my God! I will exalt you in praise, I will extol your fame. For you have done extraordinary things, and executed plans made long ago exactly as you decreed.

"Look, my servant will succeed! He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted --