“But they and our fathers acted proudly, and hardened their necks, and did not obey Your commands.
Psalm 119:21 - The Scriptures 2009 You rebuked the proud, cursed ones, Who are straying from Your commands. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou hast rebuked the proud That are cursed, which do err from thy commandments. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You rebuke the proud and arrogant, the accursed ones, who err and wander from Your commandments. American Standard Version (1901) Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from thy commandments. Common English Bible You rebuke the arrogant, accursed people who stray from your commandments. |
“But they and our fathers acted proudly, and hardened their necks, and did not obey Your commands.
and warned them, to bring them back to Your Torah. But they acted proudly, and did not obey Your commands, and sinned against Your right-rulings, ‘which if a man does, he shall live by them.’ And they gave the rebellious shoulder and hardened their necks, and would not hear.
I have sought You with all my heart; Let me not stray from Your commands!
The wrong have laid a snare for me, But I have not strayed from Your orders.
You have made light of all those Who stray from Your laws, For falsehood is their deceit.
Let the proud be put to shame, For with lies they perverted me; But I study Your orders.
Though יהוה is exalted, He looks on the humble; But the proud He perceives from a distance.
And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus said יהוה Elohim of the Hebrews, ‘Till when shall you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they serve Me.
Now I know that יהוה is greater than all the mighty ones, indeed in the matter in which they acted proudly, above them.
“And it shall be, when יהוה has performed all His work on Mount Tsiyon and on Yerushalayim, that I shall punish the fruit of the greatness of the heart of the sovereign of Ashshur, and the boasting of his haughty looks.
Who gave Ya‛aqoḇ for plunder, and Yisra’ĕl to the robbers? Was it not יהוה, He against whom we sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, and they did not obey His Torah!
“So I have profaned the chief ones of the set-apart place, and I have delivered up Ya‛aqoḇ to the curse, and Yisra’ĕl to scorn.
“We are not going to listen to you in the matter about which you spoke to us in the Name of יהוה!
Now I, Neḇuḵaḏnetstsar, am praising and exalting and esteeming the Sovereign of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His ways right. And those who walk in pride He is able to humble.
“For look, the day shall come, burning like a furnace, and all the proud, and every wrongdoer shall be stubble. And the day that shall come shall burn them up,” said יהוה of hosts, “which leaves to them neither root nor branch.
For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.
“I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.”
Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us – for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree.” –
And it shall be, if you do not obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, to guard to do all His commands and His laws which I command you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.”
“I have called the heavens and the earth as witnesses today against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed,
But He gives greater favour. Because of this He says, “Elohim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.”
In the same way, you younger ones, be subject to elders. And gird yourselves with humility toward one another, for “Elohim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble.”