The Proud

If God will not withdraw his anger, The Proud helpers do stoop under him.

He divideth The sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through The Proud.

Cast abroad The rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is Proud, and abase him.

Look on every one that is Proud, and bring him low; and tread down The wicked in their place.

• Furnace
• Seven

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and The tongue that speaketh Proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? For The oppression of The poor, for The sighing of The needy, now will I arise, saith The LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. The words of The LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. read more Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. The wicked walk on every side, when The vilest men are exalted. show less

O love The LORD, all ye his saints: for The LORD preserveth The faithful, and plentifully rewardeth The Proud doer.

Blessed is that man that maketh The LORD his trust, and respecteth not The Proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

O God, The Proud are risen against me, and The assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

• Prayer

Lift up thyself, thou judge of The earth: render a reward to The Proud.

• DAVID

Thou hast rebuked The Proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers. read more DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto The dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand The way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Remove from me The way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen The way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. I will run The way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. HE. Teach me, O LORD, The way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto The end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me to go in The path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way. Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. show less

The Proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

• Devout
• Heart

The Proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

• Prayer

Let The Proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

The Proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

Be surety for thy servant for good: let not The Proud oppress me.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with The scorning of those that are at ease, and with The contempt of The Proud.

Then The Proud waters had gone over our soul.

Though The LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto The lowly: but The Proud he knoweth afar off.

• Rope

The Proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by The wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

The LORD will destroy The house of The Proud: but he will establish The border of The widow.

• Punishment

Every one that is Proud in heart is an abomination to The LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

• Lowly
• Character

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with The lowly, than to divide The spoil with The Proud.

An high look, and a Proud heart, and The plowing of The wicked, is sin.

• Heart

He that is of a Proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in The LORD shall be made fat.

Better is The end of a thing than The beginning thereof: and The patient in spirit is better than The Proud in spirit.

For The day of The LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is Proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

And I will punish The world for their evil, and The wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause The arrogancy of The Proud to cease, and will lay low The haughtiness of The terrible.

• Moab
• Anger

We have heard of The pride of Moab; he is very Proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Hear ye, and give ear; be not Proud: for The LORD hath spoken.

Then spake Azariah The son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan The son of Kareah, and all The Proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: The LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

• Heart

We have heard The pride of Moab, (he is exceeding Proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and The haughtiness of his heart.

Call together The archers against Babylon: all ye that bend The bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been Proud against The LORD, against The Holy One of Israel.

Behold, I am against thee, O thou most Proud, saith The Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, The time that I will visit thee.

And The most Proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

And now we call The Proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

• Furnace
• Stubble
• Stubble

For, behold, The day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all The Proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and The day that cometh shall burn them up, saith The LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered The Proud in The imagination of their hearts.

• Grace

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth The Proud, but giveth grace unto The humble.

• Humble
• Character

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto The elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth The Proud, and giveth grace to The humble.