¹⁹ You say, ‘See, I^[a] have struck down Edom,’ and ^(A)your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

Uzziah's Pride and Punishment

¹⁶ But when ^(A)he was strong, ^(B)he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

²⁵ But Hezekiah ^(A)did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for ^(B)his heart was proud. Therefore ^(C)wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.

⁵ Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. ^(A)Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for ^(B)“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

⁶ But ^(A)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, ^(B)“God opposes the proud but ^(C)gives grace to the humble.”

²⁹ so ^(A)that no human being^[a] might boast in the presence of God.

³¹ Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not ^(A)sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

²⁰ But ^(A)when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, ^(B)he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. ^21 (C)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, ^(D)until he knew that the ^(E)Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. ²² And you his son,^{[a] (F)}Belshazzar, ^(G)have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, ²³ but you have lifted up yourself against ^(H)the Lord of heaven. And ^(I)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. ^(J)And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, ^(K)but the God in whose hand is your breath, and ^(L)whose are all your ways, ^(M)you have not honored.