He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
Zephaniah 2:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of Armies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This shall they have for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts. American Standard Version (1901) This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts. Common English Bible This will happen on account of their pride, because they taunted and boasted over the people of the LORD of heavenly forces. Catholic Public Domain Version This will come upon them for their arrogance, because they have blasphemed and have been magnified over the people of the Lord of hosts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This shall befall them for their pride: because they have blasphemed, and have been magnified against the people of the Lord of hosts. |
He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
Moshe and Aharon went in to Par`oh, and said to him, *This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
We have heard of the pride of Mo'av, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
Thus says the LORD against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Yisra'el to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Yehudah from among them.
We have heard of the pride of Mo'av, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, LORD, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.
For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against Eretz-Yisra'el;
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.
In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Yerushalayim, even you were like one of them.
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
I have heard the reproach of Mo'av, and the insults of the children of `Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for *God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.*