The leaders of Israel and the king humbled(A) themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”(B)

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27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,”(A) he said to them. “The Lord is in the right,(B) and I and my people are in the wrong.

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14 The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster(A) on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does;(B) yet we have not obeyed him.(C)

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10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.(A)

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But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:6 Prov. 3:34

Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.(A)

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14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”(A)

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15 Then I will return to my lair(A)
    until they have borne their guilt(B)
    and seek my face(C)
in their misery(D)
    they will earnestly seek me.(E)

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22 “But you, Belshazzar, his son,[a] have not humbled(A) yourself, though you knew all this.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:22 Or descendant; or successor

18 “The Lord is righteous,(A)
    yet I rebelled(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.(C)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.(D)

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10 To this day they have not humbled(A) themselves or shown reverence,(B) nor have they followed my law(C) and the decrees(D) I set before you and your ancestors.(E)

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18 Say to the king(A) and to the queen mother,(B)
    “Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns(C)
    will fall from your heads.”

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Threat of Captivity

15 Hear and pay attention,
    do not be arrogant,
    for the Lord has spoken.(A)

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But the Lord is righteous;(A)
    he has cut me free(B) from the cords of the wicked.”(C)

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34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek(A) him;
    they eagerly turned to him again.
35 They remembered that God was their Rock,(B)
    that God Most High was their Redeemer.(C)

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27 And they will go to others and say,
    ‘I have sinned,(A) I have perverted what is right,(B)
    but I did not get what I deserved.(C)

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23 But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble(A) himself before the Lord; Amon increased his guilt.

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19 His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled(A) himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:19 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts of Hozai

12 In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled(A) himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.

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26 Then Hezekiah repented(A) of the pride of his heart, as did the people of Jerusalem; therefore the Lord’s wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah.(B)

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