2 Chronicles 28:19

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.

He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

“We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”

They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

He gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah, and gather money to repair the house of your God from all Israel from year to year. See that you expedite this matter.” However the Levites didn’t do it right away.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

“You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),

The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”

Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”