Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Abasement » Of the proud foretold
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
A man's pride shall bring him low; But he that is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.
For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;
And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him.
For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
He hath put down princes from their thrones, And hath exalted them of low degree.