² Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
    you shall be utterly despised.^[a]

⁹ The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    ^(A)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,^[a]
    to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

^18 (A)Edom shall be dispossessed;
    ^(B)Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed.
    Israel is doing valiantly.

¹⁰ Then ^(A)my enemy will see,
    and shame will cover her who ^(B)said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”
^(C)My eyes will look upon her;
    now she will be trampled down
    ^(D)like the mire of the streets.

^51 (A)He has shown strength with his arm;
    ^(B)he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
^52 (C)he has brought down the mighty from their thrones
    ^(D)and exalted those of humble estate;

²⁵ Thus, knowing their works,
    he ^(A)overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
²⁶ He strikes them for their wickedness
    in a place for all to see,
²⁷ because they turned aside from ^(B)following him
    and had no regard for any of his ways,
²⁸ so that they ^(C)caused the cry of the poor to come to him,
    and he ^(D)heard the cry of the afflicted—
²⁹ When he is quiet, who can condemn?
    When he hides his face, who can behold him,
    whether it be a nation or a man?—

^7 (A)The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
    ^(B)he brings low and he exalts.
^8 (C)He raises up the poor from the dust;
    he lifts the needy from the ash heap
^(D)to make them sit with princes
    and inherit a seat of honor.
^(E)For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's,
    and on them he has set the world.