They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, ¹  and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

by holding on to ¹  the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, “God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.” ¹ 

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of ¹  before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

The beast ¹  was given a mouth speaking proud words ²  and blasphemies, and he was permitted ³  to exercise ruling authority ⁴  for forty-two months.

But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

Even though his stature ¹  reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

each one is so close to the next ¹  that no air can come between them.

All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, ¹  and his children ²  are blessed.

A wise child ¹  brings joy to his father, but a foolish person ²  despises ³  his mother.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice. ¹ 

There is a generation whose eyes are so lofty, ¹  and whose eyelids are lifted up disdainfully. ² 

for every high tower, for every fortified wall,

Then Azariah ¹  son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and other arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God did not send you to tell us, ‘You must not go to Egypt and settle there.’

“Son of man, say to the prince ¹  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Your heart is proud ²  and you said, “I am a god; ³  I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” – yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike. ⁴ 

Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! ¹  His appetite ²  is as big as Sheol’s; ³  like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers ⁴  all the nations; he seizes ⁵  all peoples.

A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

I am enraged at the shepherds and will punish the lead-goats. For the Lord who rules over all has brought blessing to his flock, the house of Judah, and will transform them into his majestic warhorse.

Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. ¹ 

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.