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Psalm 119:21

New American Bible - revised edition

With a curse you rebuke the proud who stray from your commandments.

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But they, our ancestors, proved to be insolent; they were obdurate and did not obey your commandments.

You bore witness against them, to bring them back to your law. But they were insolent and would not obey your commandments; They sinned against your ordinances, which give life to those who keep them. They turned stubborn backs, stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

With all my heart I seek you; do not let me stray from your commandments.

The wicked have set snares for me, but from your precepts I do not stray.

You reject all who stray from your statutes, for vain is their deceit.

Shame the proud for leading me astray with falsehood, that I may study your testimonies.

The Lord is on high, but cares for the lowly and knows the proud from afar.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to serve me.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for he rescued the people from the power of the Egyptians when they treated them arrogantly.”

But when the Lord has brought to an end all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the utterance of the king of Assyria’s proud heart, and the boastfulness of his haughty eyes.

Who was it that gave Jacob to be despoiled, Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? In his ways they refused to walk, his teaching they would not heed.

Till I repudiated the holy princes, put Jacob under the ban, exposed Israel to scorn.

“Regarding the word you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not listening to you.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Saying on Children and the Kingdom.

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree,”

But if you do not obey the voice of the Lord, your God, carefully observing all his commandments and statutes which I give you today, all these curses shall come upon you and overwhelm you:

I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live,

But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Likewise, you younger members, be subject to the presbyters. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for: “God opposes the proud but bestows favor on the humble.”




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