Isaiah 2:12

New International Reader's Version

The Lord who rules over all has set apart a day when he will judge. He has set it apart for all those who are proud and think they are important. He has set it apart for all those who brag about themselves. All of them will be brought low.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:28

You save those who aren’t proud. But you watch the proud to bring them down.

Job 24:1

“Why doesn’t the Mighty One set a time for judging sinful people? Why do those who know him have to keep waiting for that day?

Psalm 131:1

Lord, my heart isn’t proud. My eyes aren’t proud either. I don’t concern myself with important matters. I don’t concern myself with things that are too wonderful for me.

Psalm 18:28

Lord, you keep the lamp of my life burning brightly. You are my God. You bring light into my darkness.

Psalm 37:13

But the Lord laughs at those who do evil. He knows the day is coming when he will judge them.

Psalm 94:2

Judge of the earth, rise up. Pay back proud people for what they have done.

Proverbs 16:5

The Lord hates all those who have proud hearts. You can be sure that they will be punished.

Isaiah 10:12

The Lord will finish everything he has planned to do against Mount Zion and Jerusalem. Then he’ll say, “Now I will punish the king of Assyria. I will punish him because his heart and his eyes are so proud.

Isaiah 10:33

The Assyrian soldiers are like trees in a forest. The Lord who rules over all will chop them down. The Lord will cut off their branches with his great power. He will chop the tall trees down. He will cut down even the highest ones.

Isaiah 13:11

The Lord will punish the world because it is so evil. He will punish evil people for their sins. He’ll put an end to the bragging of those who are proud. He’ll bring down the pride of those who don’t show any pity.

Isaiah 13:6

Cry out! The day of the Lord is near. The Mighty One is coming to destroy the Babylonians.

Isaiah 13:9

The day of the Lord is coming. It will be a terrible day. The Lord’s burning anger will blaze out. He will make the land dry and empty. He’ll destroy the sinners in it.

Isaiah 14:15

But now you have been brought down to the place of the dead. You have been thrown into the deepest part of the pit.

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord who rules over all planned to do it. He wanted to bring down all its pride and glory. He wanted to shame those who were honored all over the earth.

Isaiah 24:21

At that time the Lord will punish the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens above. He will also punish the kings on the earth below.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth will dry up completely. The world will dry up and waste away. The heavens will fade away along with the earth.

Isaiah 40:23

He takes the power of princes away from them. He reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

Isaiah 42:15

I will completely destroy the mountains and hills. I will dry up everything that grows there. I will turn rivers into dry land. I will dry up the pools.

Isaiah 5:15

So people will be brought low. Everyone will be made humble. Those who brag will be brought down.

Isaiah 61:2

He has sent me to announce the year when he will set his people free. He wants me to announce the day when he will pay his enemies back. Our God has sent me to comfort all those who are sad.

Jeremiah 12:9

My own land has become like a spotted hawk. And other hawks surround it and attack it. Come, all you wild animals! Gather together! Come together to eat up my land.

Jeremiah 13:9

“In the same way, I will destroy Judah’s pride. And I will destroy the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 30:7

How awful that day will be! No other day will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for the people of Jacob. But they will be saved out of it.

Jeremiah 46:10

But that day belongs to me. I am the Lord who rules over all. It is a day for me to pay back my enemies. My sword will eat until it is satisfied. It will drink until it is not thirsty for blood anymore. I am the Lord. I am the Lord who rules over all. I will offer a sacrifice. I will offer it in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.

Jeremiah 50:31

“Proud Babylonians, I am against you,” announces the Lord. The Lord who rules over all says, “Your day to be judged has come. It is time for you to be punished.

Ezekiel 13:5

You have not repaired the cracks in the city wall for the people of Israel. So it will not stand firm in the battle on the day I judge you.

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give praise and honor and glory to the King of heaven. Everything he does is right. All his ways are fair. He is able to bring down those who live proudly.

Amos 5:18

How terrible it will be for you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you want it to come? That day will be dark, not light.

Micah 2:3

So the Lord says to them, “I am planning to send trouble on you. You will not be able to save yourselves from it. You will not live so proudly anymore. It will be a time of trouble.

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the cities in your land. I will tear down all your forts.

Zephaniah 1:16

Trumpet blasts and battle cries will be heard. Soldiers will attack cities that have forts and corner towers.

Zephaniah 3:11

Jerusalem, you have done many wrong things to me. But at that time you will not be put to shame anymore. That’s because I will remove from this city those who think so highly of themselves. You will never be proud again on my holy mountain of Zion.

Malachi 4:1

“You can be sure the day of the Lord is coming. My anger will burn like a furnace. All those who are proud will be like straw. So will all those who do what is evil. The day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord who rules over all. “Not even a root or a branch will be left to them.

Malachi 4:5

“I will send the prophet Elijah to you. He will come before the day of the Lord arrives. It will be a great and terrifying day.

Matthew 23:12

People who lift themselves up will be made humble. And people who make themselves humble will be lifted up.

Luke 14:11

All those who lift themselves up will be made humble. And those who make themselves humble will be lifted up.”

1 Corinthians 5:5

When you come together like this, hand this man over to Satan. Then the power of sin in his life will be destroyed. His spirit will be saved on the day the Lord returns.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

You know very well how the day of the Lord will come. It will come like a thief in the night.

James 4:6

But God continues to give us more grace. That’s why Scripture says, “God opposes those who are proud. But he gives grace to those who are humble.” (Proverbs 3:34)