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Isaiah 23:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord of Armies planned it, to desecrate all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the honoured ones of the earth.

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But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.   ,


I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their iniquities. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.


The pride of mankind  will be humbled, and human loftiness will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.


Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of the heavens, because all his works are true and his ways are just.  He is able to humble  those who walk in pride.


This is according to his eternal purpose  accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.


In him we have also received an inheritance,  because we were predestined  according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,


to do whatever your hand and your will had predestined to take place.


‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.


Say, “Lord, you have threatened to cut off  this place so that no one will live in it #– #people or animals.  Indeed, it will remain desolate for ever.”


The Lord of Armies himself has planned it; therefore, who can stand in its way? It is his hand that is outstretched, so who can turn it back?


The Lord of Armies has sworn: As I have purposed, so it will be; as I have planned it, so it will happen.


Look, the Lord God of Armies will chop off the branches with terrifying power, and the tall trees will be cut down, the high trees felled.


The head is the elder, the honoured one; the tail is the prophet, the one teaching lies.


Therefore my people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her  dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst.


The pride of mankind will be brought low, and human loftiness will be humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.


He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms  the strong.


This is the plan  prepared for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out against all the nations.


Overflow  your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer anything to restrain you.


for the ground of my people growing thorns and briars, indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.


‘This is what the Lord says: Just like this I will ruin the great pride of both Judah and Jerusalem.


Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations; you will be deeply despised.


The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your officials.’


For a day belonging to the  Lord of Armies is coming against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up #– #it will be humbled –





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