10 Bible Verses about Abasement

Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

The LORD tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries.

One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up--and it shall be brought low;

For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up--and it shall be brought low;

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' read more.
But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GODconcerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!" Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?" read more.
Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.

And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.

This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one else." What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws.

PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians."

"Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high."