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I say to the boastful, “Do not boast,”
    and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn;(A)

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21 And I asked, “What are they coming to do?” He answered, “Those are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no head could be raised, but these have come to terrify them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people.”[a](A)

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  1. 1.21 Heb it

O simple ones, learn prudence;
    acquire intelligence, you who lack it.(A)

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22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools hate knowledge?(A)

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14 He has raised up a horn for his people,
    praise for all his faithful,
    for the people of Israel who are close to him.
Praise the Lord!(A)

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Understand, O dullest of the people;
    fools, when will you be wise?(A)

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17 For you are the glory of their strength;
    by your favor our horn is exalted.(A)

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“How long will you judge unjustly
    and show partiality to the wicked? Selah(A)
Give justice to the weak and the orphan;
    maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.(B)
Rescue the weak and the needy;
    deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”(C)

They have neither knowledge nor understanding;
    they walk around in darkness;
    all the foundations of the earth are shaken.(D)

I say, “You are gods,
    children of the Most High, all of you;(E)
nevertheless, you shall die like mortals
    and fall like any prince.”[a](F)

Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
    for all the nations belong to you!(G)

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  1. 82.7 Or fall as one man, O princes

20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and concerning the other horn that came up and before which three others had fallen—the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke arrogantly and that seemed greater than the others. 21 As I looked, that horn made war with the holy ones and was prevailing over them,(A)

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Lay aside immaturity and live,
    and walk in the way of insight.”(A)

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