Isaiah 23:9

WEB

⁹The LORD of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

KJV

⁹The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

BSB

⁹The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.

FBV

⁹The Lord Almighty planned it, to humble its pride in all its glory, and to bring down all who receive worldly honor.

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Extra References

James 4:6

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

Isaiah 13:11

¹¹I 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.

Job 40:11-12

¹¹Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low. ¹²Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Isaiah 2:11

¹¹The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Daniel 4:37

³⁷Now 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.

Isaiah 10:33

³³Behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Isaiah 9:15

¹⁵The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

¹“For behold, the day comes, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and all who work wickedness will be stubble. The day that comes will burn them up,” says the LORD of Armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Isaiah 5:15-16

¹⁵So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; ¹⁶but the LORD of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Ephesians 1:11

¹¹We 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,