You deliver a humble people, but your eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.
Isaiah 5:15 - New Revised Standard Version People are bowed down, everyone is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the common man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled. American Standard Version (1901) And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: Common English Bible Humanity will be humiliated; each person laid low, the eyes of the exalted laid low. Catholic Public Domain Version And man will be bowed down, and man will be humbled, and the eyes of the exalted will be brought low. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low. |
You deliver a humble people, but your eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
Those of low estate are but a breath, those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
You are still exalting yourself against my people, and will not let them go.
There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.
Look, the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the tallest trees will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the insolence of tyrants.
The haughty eyes of people shall be brought low, and the pride of everyone shall be humbled; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;
The haughtiness of people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
And so people are humbled, and everyone is brought low— do not forgive them!
‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord; and shall I not bring retribution on a nation such as this?
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; and he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.
On that day you shall not be put to shame because of all the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.
In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”