Isaiah 23:9

Modern English Version

The Lord of Hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Cross References

Job 12:21

He pours contempt upon princes and loosens the belt of the mighty.

Psalm 107:40

He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in a pathless wilderness;

Exodus 8:4

So the frogs shall come upon you, upon your people, and upon all your servants.’ ”

Isaiah 10:33

Behold, the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, shall lop the bough with terror; and the tall ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

Isaiah 13:11

I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of Hosts has sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Isaiah 14:26

This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of Hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? And His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Isaiah 2:11

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon everything that is proud and lofty, and upon everything that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

Isaiah 2:17

The loftiness of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day;

Isaiah 23:10

Pass through your land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no more restraint.

Isaiah 32:13

for the land of my people in which thorns and briers shall come up, yes, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city;

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore My people go into captivity because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Isaiah 9:15

The elder and honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.

Jeremiah 13:9

Thus says the Lord: After this manner I will destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 51:62

and say, ‘O  Lord, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, that no one will remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever.’

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and those who walk in pride He is able to abase.

Obadiah 1:2

Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be greatly despised.

Malachi 4:1

Surely the day is coming, burning like an oven; all the proud, yes, all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming will burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Acts 4:28

to do what Your hand and Your counsel had foreordained to be done.

Ephesians 1:11

In Him also we have received an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,

Ephesians 3:11

according to the eternal purpose which He completed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

James 4:6

But He gives more grace. For this reason it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”