Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Humiliation of sinners » Threatened
Because of your rage against Me, and because your arrogance has come up into My ears, even I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips. And I will turn you back by the way in which you came.
Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
If they dig into hell, there My hand shall take them. And if they go up to the heavens, I will bring them down from there.
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor together, those who magnify themselves over me.
And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the pride of tyrants.
And He shall spread out His hands in their midst, as he who swims strokes to swim. And He shall bring down their pride with the skill of His hands.
For He brings down those who dwell on high; He lays low the lofty city; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it to the dust.
And I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a never-ending shame, which shall not be forgotten.
They shall bring you down to the Pit, and you shall die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas.
So the Lord Jehovah says this: An enemy! And he shall be all around the land; and he shall bring you down from your strength, and your palaces shall be plundered.