do not boast over the branches. But if you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears, ¹  I will put my hook in your nose, ²  and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”

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.

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.’

The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life. ¹  The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking: “I despise Jacob’s arrogance; I hate their ²  fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies ³  the city of Samaria ⁴  and everything in it.”

Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

What man is like Job, who ¹  drinks derision ²  like water!

They mock ¹  and say evil things; ²  they proudly threaten violence. ³ 

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, ¹  those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer. ² 

Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!

haughty eyes, ¹  a lying tongue, ²  and hands that shed innocent blood, ³ 

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

“As I was contemplating the horns, another horn – a small one – came up between them, and three of the former horns were torn out by the roots to make room for it. ¹  This horn had eyes resembling human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogant ²  things.

I also wanted to know ¹  the meaning of the ten horns on its head, and of that other horn which came up and before which three others fell. This was the horn that had eyes ²  and a mouth speaking arrogant things, whose appearance was more formidable than the others. ³ 

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me ¹  not what you wish. I am afraid that ²  somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, ³  slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord ¹  and recklessly went up to the hill country.

Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men ¹  spread a net by the path; they set traps for me. (Selah)

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; ¹  the Lord alone will be exalted ²  in that day.

“Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!