For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light,
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored. “Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the Lord.
That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.
Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him. Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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