I will break your great pride, and I will make the sky like iron and the earth like bronze.

Remember how the Lord your God has led you in the desert for these forty years, taking away your pride and testing you, because he wanted to know what was in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.

He took away your pride when he let you get hungry, and then he fed you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever seen. This was to teach you that a person does not live on bread alone, but by everything the Lord says.

and manna to eat in the desert. Manna was something your ancestors had never seen. He did this to take away your pride and to test you, so things would go well for you in the end.

Disobedience is as bad as the sin of sorcery. Pride is as bad as the sin of worshiping idols. You have rejected the Lord’s command. Now he rejects you as king.”

But when Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his ruin. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God; he went into the Temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar for incense.

Their pride may be as high as the heavens, and their heads may touch the clouds,

God tells them what they have done, that they have sinned in their pride.

Keep me from the sins of pride; don’t let them rule me. Then I can be pure and innocent of the greatest of sins.

With pride and hatred they speak against those who do right. So silence their lying lips.

They sin by what they say; they sin with their words. They curse and tell lies, so let their pride trap them.

They wear pride like a necklace and put on violence as their clothing.

So he broke their pride by hard work. They stumbled, and no one helped.

If you respect the Lord, you will also hate evil. I hate pride and bragging, evil ways and lies.

Pride leads only to shame; it is wise to be humble.

Pride only leads to arguments, but those who take advice are wise.

Pride leads to destruction; a proud attitude brings ruin.

People who act with stubborn pride are called “proud,” “bragger,” and “mocker.”

Pride will ruin people, but those who are humble will be honored.

When the Lord finishes doing what he planned to Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will punish Assyria. The king of Assyria is very proud, and his pride has made him do these evil things, so God will punish him.

The Lord says, “I will punish the world for its evil and wicked people for their sins. I will cause proud people to lose their pride, and I will destroy the pride of those who are cruel to others.

Your pride has been sent down to the place of the dead. The music from your harps goes with it. Flies are spread out like your bed beneath you, and worms cover your body like a blanket.

Now the Lord says, “In three years all those people and what they take pride in will be hated. (This is three years as a hired helper would count time.) There will be a few people left, but they will be weak.”

They will spread their arms in it like a person who is swimming. But God will bring down their pride, and all the clever things they have made will mean nothing.

Warnings to Israel

How terrible it will be for Samaria, the pride of Israel’s drunken people! That beautiful crown of flowers is just a dying plant set on a hill above a rich valley where drunkards live.