who gives potentates into nothing. He makes judges of the earth as nothing.
making priests walk away barefoot; and He overthrows the ever-enduring ones;
pouring scorn on nobles, and He loosens the girdle of the strong;
He pours contempt on nobles, and causes them to wander in a desert; there is no path.
He shall cut off the spirit in rulers; He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
The haughtiness of eyes of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be bowed down; but Jehovah, He alone, will be exalted in that day.
For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be on all the proud ones and those exalted, and on all that is lifted up; and it will be abased;
Jehovah of Hosts has counseled it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring all those being honored of the earth into contempt.
They shall call its nobles to a kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her rulers shall be nothing.
Woe to the wise ones in their own eyes, and discerning in their own faces!
And I will cut off he who judges from its midst, and I will kill all his rulers with him, says Jehovah.