Isaiah 2:12

Easy To Read Version

The Lord has a special day planned. On that day, the Lord will punish the proud and boastful people. Then those proud people will be made not important.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:28

Lord, you help humble people. But you bring shame to proud people.

Job 24:1

“Why is it that God All-Powerful knows when \{bad\} things are going to happen to people, but his followers can’t predict when he is going to do something \{about it\}?”

Psalm 131:1

Lord, I am not proud.\par I don’t try to act important.\par I don’t try to do great things.\par I don’t worry about things\par that are too hard for me.\par

Psalm 18:28

Lord, you light my lamp.\par My God lights up the darkness around me!\par

Psalm 37:13

But our Master laughs\par at those evil people.\par He sees what will happen to them.\par

Psalm 94:2

You are the judge of the whole earth.\par Give proud people the punishment they deserve.\par

Proverbs 16:5

The Lord hates every person who thinks that he is better than other people. The Lord will surely punish all those proud people.

Isaiah 10:12

My Master will finish doing the things he planned to Jerusalem and Mount Zion. {\cf2\super [116]} Then the Lord will punish Assyria. {\cf2\super [117]} The king of Assyria is very proud. His pride made him do many bad things. So God will punish him.

Isaiah 10:33

Watch! Our Master, the Lord All-Powerful, will chop down the great tree (Assyria). The Lord will do this with his great power. The great and important people will be cut down—they will become not important.

Isaiah 13:11

\{God says,\} “I will cause bad things to happen to the world. I will punish the evil people for their sin. I will cause the proud people to lose their pride. I will stop the bragging of the people that are mean to others.

Isaiah 13:6

The Lord’s special day is near. So cry and be sad for yourselves. A time is coming when the enemy will steal your wealth. God All-Powerful will make that happen. {\cf2\super [142]}

Isaiah 13:9

Look, the Lord’s special day is coming! It will be a terrible day. God will become very angry, and he will destroy the country. God will force all people that sin to leave the country.

Isaiah 14:15

But that did not happen.\par You did not go to the sky with God.\par You were brought down to the deep pit—\par Sheol, {\cf2\super [151]} the place of death.\par

Isaiah 23:9

It was the Lord All-Powerful.\par He decided to make them not important.\par

Isaiah 24:21

At that time, the Lord will judge\par the heavenly armies in heaven\par and the earthly kings on earth.\par

Isaiah 24:4

The country will be empty and sad. The world will be empty and weak. The great leaders of the people in this land will become weak.

Isaiah 40:23

He makes rulers not important.\par He makes the judges of this world\par completely worthless.\par

Isaiah 42:15

I will destroy the hills and mountains.\par I will dry up all the plants that grow there.\par I will change rivers to dry land.\par I will dry up pools of water.\par

Isaiah 5:15

Those people will be humbled. Those great people will bow their heads and look at the ground.

Isaiah 61:2

God sent me to announce the time when the Lord will show his kindness. God sent me to announce the time when our God will punish evil people. God sent me to comfort sad people.

Jeremiah 12:9

My own people have become like\par a dying animal surrounded by vultures.\par Those birds fly around her.\par Come on, wild animals.\par Come get something to eat.\par

Jeremiah 13:9

This is what the Lord said: “The loincloth {\cf2\super [109]} is ruined and not good for anything. In the same way, I will ruin the proud people of Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 30:7

“This is a very important time for Jacob. {\cf2\super [233]} \par This is a time of great trouble.\par There will never be another time like this.\par But Jacob {\cf2\super [234]} will be saved.\par

Jeremiah 46:10

“But at that time, our Master,\par the Lord All-Powerful, will win.\par At that time, he will give the punishment\par that they deserve.\par The Lord’s enemies will get the punishment\par that they should have.\par The sword will kill until it is finished.\par The sword will kill until it satisfies\par its thirst for blood.\par This will happen because there is a sacrifice\par for our Master, the Lord All-Powerful.\par That sacrifice is \{Egypt’s army\}\par in the land of the north,\par by the Euphrates River.\par

Jeremiah 50:31

“Babylon, you are too proud.\par And I am against you.”\par Our Master, the Lord All-Powerful,\par says these things.\par “I am against you,\par and the time has come\par for you to be punished.\par

Ezekiel 13:5

You have not put soldiers near the broken walls of the city. You have not built walls to protect the family of Israel. So when the day comes for the Lord to punish you, you will lose the war!

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give praise, honor, and glory to the King of Heaven. Everything he does is right. He is always fair. And he is able to make proud people humble!

Amos 5:18

Some of you want \{to see\}\par the Lord’s special day \{of judgment\}.\par Why do you want \{to see\} that day?\par The Lord’s special day will bring darkness\par not light!\par

Micah 2:3

That is why the Lord says these things.\par “Look, I am planning trouble\par against this family.\par You will not be able to save yourselves. {\cf2\super [30]} \par You will stop being proud.\par Why? Because bad times are coming.\par

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the cities in your country.\par I will pull down all your fortresses. {\cf2\super [69]} \par

Zephaniah 1:16

It will be \{like a time of war when\} people hear horns and trumpets in the defense towers and protected cities.

Zephaniah 3:11

“Then, Jerusalem, you will no longer be ashamed of the bad things your people do against me. Why? Because I will remove all of those bad people from Jerusalem. I will take away all of those proud people. There won’t be any of those proud people on my holy mountain. {\cf2\super [21]}

Malachi 4:1

“That time of judgment is coming. It will be like a hot furnace. All those proud people will be punished. All those evil people will burn like straw. At that time, they will be like a bush burning in the fire—and there will not be a branch or root left.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.

Malachi 4:5

\{The Lord said,\} “Look, I will send Elijah the prophet to you. He will come before that great and terrible time of judgment from the Lord.

Matthew 23:12

Every person that makes himself better than other people will be made humble. Every person that makes himself humble will be made great.

Luke 14:11

Every person that makes himself important will be made humble. But the person that makes himself humble will be made important.”

1 Corinthians 5:5

Then give this man to Satan (the Devil), so that his sinful self {\cf2\super [28]} will be destroyed. Then his spirit can be saved on the day of the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

You know very well that the day the Lord comes again will be \{a surprise\} like a thief who comes at night.

James 4:6

But the grace (kindness) that God gives is greater. Like the Scripture says, “God is against proud people, but he gives grace (kindness) to people who are humble.” {\cf2\super [22]}