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Isaiah 23:9

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The Lord of Armies planned this in order to dishonor all arrogant people and to humiliate all the honored people of the world.

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He pours contempt on influential people and unbuckles the belt of the mighty.

He poured contempt on their influential people and made them stumble around in a pathless desert.

The frogs will jump on you, on your people, and on all your officials.’ ”

Now look! The Almighty Lord of Armies will trim the branches with terrifying power. The highest trees will be cut down. The tallest ones will be brought down.

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their wrongdoing. I will put an end to arrogant people and humble the pride of tyrants.

The Lord of Armies has taken an oath: “It will happen exactly as I’ve intended. It will turn out exactly as I’ve planned.

This is the plan determined for the whole earth. This is how he will use his power against all the nations.

The Lord of Armies has planned it. Who can stop it? He is ready to use his power. Who can turn it back?

The eyes of arrogant people will be humbled. High and mighty people will be brought down. On that day the Lord alone will be honored.

The Lord of Armies will have his day against all who are arrogant and conceited and all who are proud of themselves (they will be humbled),

Then arrogant people will be brought down, and high and mighty people will be humbled. On that day the Lord alone will be honored.

Travel through your country like the Nile, people of Tarshish. You no longer have a harbor.

Mourn for my people’s land where thorns and briars will grow. Mourn for all the happy homes in a joyful city.

“My people will go into exile because they don’t understand what I’m doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.”

Respected and honored leaders are the head. Prophets who teach lies are the tail.

“This is what the Lord says: This is how I will destroy Judah’s arrogance and Jerusalem’s extreme arrogance.

Then say, ‘Lord, you have threatened to destroy this place so that no person or animal will live here, and it will become a permanent ruin.’

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, will praise, honor, and give glory to the King of Heaven. Everything he does is true, his ways are right, and he can humiliate those who act arrogantly.

“Edom, I will make you the smallest of nations. Others will despise you.

“Certainly the day is coming! It will burn like a furnace. All arrogant people and all evildoers will be ⌞like⌟ straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the Lord of Armies. “It won’t leave a single root or branch.

Through your will and power, they did everything that you had already decided should be done.

God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends.

This was God’s plan for all of history which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord.

But God shows us even more kindness. Scripture says, “God opposes arrogant people, but he is kind to humble people.”




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