“Take off your jeweled crown,
    for the old order changes.
Now the lowly will be exalted,
    and the mighty will be brought down.

¹⁸ Say to the king and his mother,
“Come down from your thrones
    and sit in the dust,
for your glorious crowns
    will soon be snatched from your heads.”

⁷ It is God alone who judges;
    he decides who will rise and who will fall.

⁵² He has brought down princes from their thrones
    and exalted the humble.