13 Bible Verses about Humbling The Proud

The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

"God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.

Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity.

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.

The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.