Ezekiel 17:14 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁴ that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and that by keeping his covenant it might stand.)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ That the kingdom might become low and base and be unable to lift itself up, but that by keeping his [Nebuchadnezzar's] covenant it might stand.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Thus it would be a lowly kingdom, not asserting its own interests but observing the agreement so that it would survive.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ so that it may be a lowly kingdom, and may not lift itself up, and may instead keep his pact and serve it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his covenant, and observe it.

Ezekiel 17:14 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 38:17

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, If you will surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Ezekiel 17:6

and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine, and brought forth branches and put forth foliage.

Ezekiel 29:14

and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.

Ezekiel 29:15

It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations; and I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever’; but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Samuel 2:7

The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.