Daniel 5:20

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

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

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

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

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

‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

“The house which I am building will be great; for our God is greater than all gods.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”

Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke out on the great sea.

When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

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

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

He took some of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;

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

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

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

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

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

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

The male goat magnified himself exceedingly. When he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky.

As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms will stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn’t they let the people go, and they departed?

But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

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

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”

“You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed your strongholds.

The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”

“ ‘Yahweh says: “They also who uphold Egypt will fall. The pride of her power will come down. They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,” says the Lord Yahweh.

He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”

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.”

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.