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I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
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then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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“Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.
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Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
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You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?”
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But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
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Hezekiah’s Pride, Success and Death
In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. He prayed to the Lord, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign.
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But Hezekiah’s heart was proud and he did not respond to the kindness shown him; therefore the Lord’s wrath was on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.
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Then Hezekiah repented of the pride of his heart, as did the people of Jerusalem; therefore the Lord’s wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah.
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Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
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Proud beasts do not set foot on it, and no lion prowls there.
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to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,
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when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’?
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Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?
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Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at all who are proud and bring them low,
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look at all who are proud and humble them, crush the wicked where they stand.
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It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”
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In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
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Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
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Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full.
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May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
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Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods.
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He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.
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My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me.
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For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,
