Isaiah 13:11
New King James Version
11 “I will (A)punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
(B)I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the [a]terrible.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:11 Or tyrants
Isaiah 2:11
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11 The [a]lofty looks of man shall be (A)humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted (B)in that day.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 2:11 proud
Daniel 5:22-23
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22 “But you his son, Belshazzar, (A)have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this. 23 (B)And you have [a]lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the (C)vessels of [b]His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, (D)which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand (E)and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.
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- Daniel 5:23 Exalted
- Daniel 5:23 The temple
Jeremiah 50:29-32
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29 “Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them [a]escape.
(A)Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
(B)For she has been proud against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
30 (C)Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets,
And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord.
31 “Behold, I am against you,
O most haughty one!” says the Lord God of hosts;
“For your day has come,
[b]The time that I will punish you.
32 The most (D)proud shall stumble and fall,
And no one will raise him up;
(E)I will kindle a fire in his cities,
And it will devour all around him.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:29 Qr., some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg. add to her
- Jeremiah 50:31 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. The time of your punishment
Isaiah 5:15
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15 People shall be brought down,
(A)Each man shall be humbled,
And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.
Jeremiah 51:34-38
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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has (A)devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an (B)empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (C)I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
(D)I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
37 (E)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
(F)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
Isaiah 26:21
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21 For behold, the Lord (A)comes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her [a]blood,
And will no more cover her slain.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:21 Or bloodshed
Isaiah 24:4-6
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4 The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The (A)haughty[a] people of the earth languish.
5 (B)The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have (C)transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the (D)everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore (E)the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are [b]desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are (F)burned,
And few men are left.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 24:4 proud
- Isaiah 24:6 Or held guilty
Isaiah 14:21
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21 Prepare slaughter for his children
(A)Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”
Isaiah 14:12-16
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The Fall of Lucifer
12 “How(A) you are fallen from heaven,
O [a]Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
(B)‘I will ascend into heaven,
(C)I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the (D)mount of the congregation
(E)On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
(F)I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you (G)shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the [b]lowest depths of the Pit.
16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 14:12 Lit. Day Star
- Isaiah 14:15 Lit. recesses
Isaiah 11:4
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4 But (A)with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
He shall (B)strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.
Isaiah 3:11
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11 Woe to the wicked! (A)It shall be ill with him,
For the reward of his hands shall be [a]given him.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 3:11 done to him
Isaiah 2:17
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17 The [a]loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 2:17 pride
Revelation 18:2-3
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2 And he cried [a]mightily with a loud voice, saying, (A)“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and (B)has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and (C)a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3 For all the nations (D)have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, (E)and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the [b]abundance of her luxury.”
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- Revelation 18:2 NU, M omit mightily
- Revelation 18:3 Lit. strengths
Revelation 12:9-10
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9 So (A)the great dragon was cast out, (B)that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, (C)who deceives the whole world; (D)he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, (E)“Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, (F)who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
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