Isaiah 23:9

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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

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.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

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

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

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.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

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

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.

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 he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

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

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

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour 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.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

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.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

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

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.

The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.

For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal.

Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.” ’ ”

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

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

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

“Yahweh says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

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.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.” ’ ”

They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

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:

The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.”

who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’

The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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