Ezekiel 28:17

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

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

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

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.”

Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

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

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

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 it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

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

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.”

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

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

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

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

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

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

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

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.

Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt; so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

All the inhabitants of the islands are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid. They are troubled in their face.

Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

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

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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

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

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.

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.”

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men.

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

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.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

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

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

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.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.

The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

“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.

“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.

“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty. They are all the ruthless of the nations. They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing, and all its multitude will be destroyed.

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?”

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.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

“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.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

“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;

Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

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.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

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

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

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

“ ‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.

therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.

Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.”

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.

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 multitude will be lifted up, and his heart will be exalted. He will cast down tens of thousands, but he won’t prevail.

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

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