'Pride' in the Bible
and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;
And Eliab, his eldest brother, heareth when he speaketh unto the men, and the anger of Eliab burneth against David, and he saith, 'Why is this -- thou hast come down! and to whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known thy pride, and the evil of thy heart -- for, to see the battle thou hast come down.'
Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion.
To turn aside man from doing, And pride from man He concealeth.
There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.
And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
Every high thing he doth see, He is king over all sons of pride.
Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.
Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.
The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.
A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled is wisdom.
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.
Before destruction is pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'
Proud, haughty, scorner is his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.
The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.
And the people have known -- all of it, Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, In pride and in greatness of heart, saying,
We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right are his devices.
And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.
We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, Exceeding proud! His haughtiness, and his arrogance, And his pride, and the height of his heart,
Thy terribleness hath lifted thee up, The pride of thy heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For thou makest high as an eagle thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Lo, I am against thee, O pride, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, For thy day hath come, the time of thy inspection.
And stumbled hath pride, And he hath fallen, and hath no raiser up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it hath devoured all round about him.
Lo, the day, lo, it hath come, Gone forth hath the morning, Blossomed hath the rod, flourished the pride.
Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'
The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place is his habitation, He is saying in his heart, 'Who doth bring me down to earth?')