“I, the Lord, say: ¹  ‘This shows how ²  I will ruin the highly exalted position ³  in which Judah and Jerusalem ⁴  take pride.

Pride ¹  goes ²  before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. ³ 

When pride ¹  comes, ²  then comes disgrace, ³  but with humility ⁴  comes ⁵  wisdom.

We have heard about Moab’s pride, their great arrogance, their boasting, pride, and excess. ¹  But their boastful claims are empty! ² 

Arrogance is their necklace, ¹  and violence their clothing. ² 

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

I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves. ¹ 

Then ¹  they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.

The fear of the Lord is to hate ¹  evil; I hate arrogant pride ²  and the evil way and perverse utterances. ³ 

A person’s pride ¹  will bring him low, ²  but one who has a lowly spirit ³  will gain honor.

With pride ¹  comes only ²  contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised. ³ 

to turn a person from his sin, ¹  and to cover a person’s pride. ² 

A proud ¹  and arrogant ²  person, whose name is “Scoffer,” ³  acts ⁴  with overbearing pride. ⁵ 

All the people were aware ¹  of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. ²  Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said, ³ 

In your days of majesty, ¹  was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth,

This is how they will be repaid for their arrogance, ¹  for they taunted and verbally harassed ²  the people of the Lord who commands armies.

Babylon, the most admired ¹  of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, ²  will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were. ³ 

The Lord confirms this oath ¹  by the arrogance of Jacob: ²  “I swear ³  I will never forget all you have done! ⁴ 

The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the Lord was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah’s reign. ¹