Jeremiah 50:32
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32 The arrogant one shall stumble and fall,
with no one to raise him up,
and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it will devour everything around him.(A)
Jeremiah 49:27
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27 And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.(A)
Jeremiah 21:14
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14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings,
says the Lord;
I will kindle a fire in its forest,
and it shall devour all that is around it.(A)
Isaiah 10:12-15
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12 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he[a] will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.(A) 13 For he says:
“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I have removed the boundaries of peoples
and have plundered their treasures;
like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.(B)
14 My hand has found, like a nest,
the wealth of the peoples,
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth,
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened its mouth or chirped.”(C)
15 Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it
or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it?
As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up,
or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!(D)
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- 10.12 Gk: Heb I
Revelation 18:8
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8 therefore her plagues will come in a single day—
pestilence and mourning and famine—
and she will be burned with fire,
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”(A)
Amos 2:5
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5 So I will send a fire on Judah,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.(A)
Amos 2:2
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2 So I will send a fire on Moab,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth,
and Moab shall die amid uproar,
amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;(A)
Amos 1:14
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14 So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah,
and it shall devour its strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
with a storm on the day of the whirlwind;(A)
Amos 1:12
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12 So I will send a fire on Teman,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.(A)
Amos 1:10
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10 So I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre,
and it shall devour its strongholds.(A)
Amos 1:7
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7 So I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
and it shall devour its strongholds.
Amos 1:4
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4 So I will send a fire on the house of Hazael,
and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.(A)
Daniel 5:23-30
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23 You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.(A)
24 “So from his presence the hand was sent and this writing was inscribed.(B) 25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: mene,[a] tekel, and parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: mene: God has numbered the days of[b] your kingdom and brought it to an end;(C) 27 tekel: you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting;(D) 28 peres:[c] your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed in purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made concerning him that he should rank third in the kingdom.
30 That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.(E)
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Daniel 5:20
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20 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he acted proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was stripped from him.(A)
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Ezekiel 28:2-9
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2 Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God:
Because your heart is proud
and you have said, “I am a god;
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,”
yet you are but a mortal and no god,
though you compare your mind
with the mind of a god.(A)
3 You are indeed wiser than Daniel;[a]
no secret is hidden from you;(B)
4 by your wisdom and your understanding
you have amassed wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries.(C)
5 By your great wisdom in trade
you have increased your wealth,
and your heart has become proud in your wealth.(D)
6 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
Because you compare your mind
with the mind of a god,(E)
7 therefore, I will bring strangers against you,
the most terrible of the nations;
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
and defile your splendor.(F)
8 They shall thrust you down to the Pit,
and you shall die a violent death
in the heart of the seas.(G)
9 Will you still say, “I am a god,”
in the presence of those who kill you,
though you are but a mortal and no god,
in the hands of those who pierce you?
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- 28.3 Or Danel
Jeremiah 51:64
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64 and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ”[a]
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.(A)
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- 51.64 Gk: Heb on her. And they shall weary themselves
Jeremiah 51:26
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26 No stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be a perpetual waste,
says the Lord.(A)
Isaiah 14:13-15
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13 You said to yourself,
“I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
on the heights of Zaphon;[a](A)
14 I will ascend to the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”(B)
15 But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the depths of the Pit.(C)
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- 14.13 Or assembly in the far north
Proverbs 18:12
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12 Before destruction one’s heart is haughty,
but humility goes before honor.(A)
Proverbs 16:18
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18 Pride goes before destruction
and a haughty spirit before a fall.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:22
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22 For a fire is kindled by my anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.(A)
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