¹² Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low
    and ^(A)tread down the wicked ^(B)where they stand.

⁵ They shall be like mighty men in battle,
    ^(A)trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;
they shall fight because the Lord is with them,
    and they shall put to shame ^(B)the riders on horses.

¹¹ I will punish ^(A)the world for its evil,
    and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will ^(B)put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
    ^(C)and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.

⁶ Against a ^(A)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ^(B)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to ^(C)tread them down like the mire of the streets.

³ If the clouds are full of rain,
    they empty themselves on the earth,
and if a tree falls to the south or to the north,
    in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

²⁵ The Lord tears down the house of ^(A)the proud
    but ^(B)maintains ^(C)the widow's boundaries.