'Low' in the Bible

And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;

And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.

The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!

How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places.

How have the great ones been made low, and the arms of war broken!

For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but your eyes are on men of pride, to make them low.

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.

Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.

If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.

And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.

For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel; for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord.

But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.

Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

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.

High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.

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.

Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

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.

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

And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

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

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

The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.

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

Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

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

For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

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.

The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.

When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up 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.

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, 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;

And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.

How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to 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.

And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs.

And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.

And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,

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.

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

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 queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

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

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 its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

So that the kingdom might be made low with no power of lifting itself up, but might keep his agreement to be his servants.

And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it 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.