'Low' in the Bible

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

I am bent over and brought low;all day long I go around in mourning.

They say, "Wickedness is entrenched in him. Once he is brought low, he will not rise again."

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

Don't kill them! Otherwise, my people may forget. By your power make them stumble around; bring them down low, Lord, our Shield.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Let not those who have hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord God of armies: let not those who are waiting for you be made low because of me, O God of Israel.

You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.

O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

But God is judge, This He maketh low -- and this He lifteth up.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;He has shortened my days.

By them they were crushed, and made low under their hands.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

yet stooping low to observe the sky and the earth?

He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;

The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Jehovah is causing the meek to stand, Making low the wicked unto the earth.

Though He scoffs at the scoffers and scorns the scorners,Yet He gives His grace [His undeserved favor] to the humble [those who give up self-importance].

Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

For many slain she has laid low, and countless [are] all of her killings.

He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.

The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.

The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

By slothfulness is the wall brought low, And by idleness of the hands doth the house drop.

And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

So humanity is brought low,and man is humbled.Do not forgive them!

Human pride will be humbled,and the loftiness of men will be brought low;the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

Humanity is brought low, man is humbled,and haughty eyes are humbled.

Therefore the Lord cuts off head and tail [the highest and the lowest] from Israel,Both [the high] palm branch and [the low] bulrush in one day.

For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;

Behold, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will lop off its boughs with terrifying power; the tallest in height will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanonrejoice over you:“Since you have been laid low,no woodcutter has come against us.”

"How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation!

"And this shall happen: On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will become lean.

There will be no work for EgyptWhich head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.

See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.

“So they will hang on him all the honor and glory [the complete responsibility] of his father’s house, offspring and issue [of the family, high and low], all the least of the articles, from the bowls to all the jars.

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

He will spread out his arms in the middle of it,as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.His pride will be brought low,along with the trickery of his hands.

And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

"How terrible it will be for you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed yourself! And how terrible it will be for you, traitor, one whom people have not betrayed! When you have sunk so low in destroying others, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you."

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.

But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.

"Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low. Their idols are on beasts, on livestock. Your loads are more burdensome than their reports.

Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.

And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

"All the descendants of those who oppressed you will come bending low before you, and all those who despised you will bow down at your feet. They'll call you "The City of the LORD,' "Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'"

Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.

Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.

Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.

And they have come in from cities of Judah, And from suburbs of Jerusalem, And from the land of Benjamin, And from the low country, And from the hill-country, and from the south, Bringing in burnt-offering, and sacrifice, And present, and frankincense, And bringing praise to the house of Jehovah.

Fields with money they buy, so as to write in a book, and to seal, and to cause witnesses to testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in suburbs of Jerusalem, and in cities of Judah, and in cities of the hill-country, and in cities of the low country, and in cities of the south, for I turn back their captivity -- an affirmation of Jehovah.'

In the cities of the hill-country, In the cities of the low country, And in the cities of the south, And in the land of Benjamin, And in the suburbs of Jerusalem, And in the cities of Judah, Again doth the flock pass by under the hands of the numberer, said Jehovah.

Run! Turn back! Lie low,residents of Dedan,for I will bring Esau’s calamity on himat the time I punish him.

Flee! Wander far away! {Get down low}! O inhabitants of Hazor," {declares} Yahweh. "For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you. And he has schemed a scheme against you.

By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through your sins, which are more disgusting than theirs, they are more upright than you: truly, you will be shamed and made low, for you have made your sisters seem upright.

So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you.

And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

so that the kingdom would be in subjection, unable to restore itself and rise again, but that by keeping his covenant it might continue.

And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.

And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

Men from the low country south of Edom and many of the coastlands were your markets for ivory tusks and ebony that they brought to trade with you.

Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.

And I have turned back to the captivity of Egypt, And I have brought them back To the land of Pathros, to the land of their birth, And they have been there a low kingdom.