You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
Isaiah 2:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For there shall be a day of the Lord of hosts against all who are proud and haughty and against all who are lifted up–and they shall be brought low–[Zeph. 2:3; Mal. 4:1.] American Standard Version (1901) For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low; Common English Bible The LORD of heavenly forces has planned a day: against all that is prideful and haughty; against all that is lofty, and it will be laid low; Catholic Public Domain Version For the day of the Lord of hosts will prevail over all the proud and self-exalted, and over all the arrogant, and each one shall be humbled, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant: and he shall be humbled. |
You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.
*Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
For you will light my lamp, the LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Tziyon and on Yerushalayim, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Ashur, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
Wail; for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
The LORD of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
It shall happen in that day that the LORD will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.
I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go you, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.
Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Yehudah, and the great pride of Yerushalayim.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Ya`akov's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
For that day is [a day] of the Lord, the LORD of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, the LORD of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Perat.
Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, the LORD of Armies; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Yisra'el, to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Now I, Nevukhadnetzar 1, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
*Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Therefore thus says the LORD: *Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.
I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.
a day of the shofar and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
*For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,* says the LORD of Armies, *that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Behold, I will send you Eliyahu the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.*
are to deliver such a one to Hasatan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Yeshua.
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, *God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.*