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Jeremiah 13:9

Good News Translation

“This is how I will destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

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Pride leads to destruction, and arrogance to downfall.

The people of Judah say, “We have heard how proud the people of Moab are. We know that they are arrogant and conceited, but their boasts are empty.”

The Lord Almighty planned it. He planned it in order to put an end to their pride in what they had done and to humiliate their honored ones.

Then the Lord spoke to me again. He said,

Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah, together with its kings and leaders, were made to drink from it, so that they would become a desert, a terrible and shocking sight, and so that people would use their name as a curse—as they still do.

Moab is very proud! I have heard how proud, arrogant, and conceited the people are, how much they think of themselves.

They were proud and stubborn and did the things that I hate, so I destroyed them, as you well know.

Didn't you joke about Sodom in those days when you were proud

I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron.

The Lord is about to restore the glory of Israel, as it was before her enemies plundered her.)

At that time you, my people, will no longer need to be ashamed that you rebelled against me. I will remove everyone who is proud and arrogant, and you will never again rebel against me on my sacred hill.

I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”

But the grace that God gives is even stronger. As the scripture says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

In the same way you younger people must submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you must put on the apron of humility, to serve one another; for the scripture says, “God resists the proud, but shows favor to the humble.”




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