Ezekiel 7:10

⁵Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

⁶But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

³For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

¹⁸Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

¹Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

⁶An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.

³²then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

¹⁴Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”

³The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

⁸On the next day, Moses went into the Tent of the Testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.