Jeremiah 48:29

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.

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.

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.

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.”

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

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

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

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

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

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

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.

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.

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

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

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

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

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.

Abstain from every form of evil.

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

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

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

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.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

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.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

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

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.

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.

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

Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,’ says Yahweh. ‘You that say, “Who would come down against us?” or “Who would enter into our homes?”

“ ‘ “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.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

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.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

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?’

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

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

Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

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

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

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.”

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

“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.

For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

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.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

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

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

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

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

“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

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.

This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

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.”