Isaiah 2:12

“And You save an afflicted people; But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You bring down.

“Why are times not stored up by the Almighty, And why do those who know Him not behold His days?

“Pour out the overflowings of your anger, And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.

“Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

“Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden place.

A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Yahweh, my heart is not exalted, and my eyes are not raised high; And I do not involve myself in great matters, Or in matters too marvelous for me.

Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the exalted of the people of the earth languish.

And he will spread out his hands in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim, But Yahweh will lay low his lofty pride together with the trickery of his hands.

“I will lay waste the mountains and hills And dry up all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And dry up the pools of waters.

To proclaim the favorable year of Yahweh And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all who mourn,

“Thus says Yahweh, ‘Just so will I ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

‘Alas! For that day is great, There is none like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s distress, But he will be saved from it.

but you have raised yourself up against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear, or know. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not honored.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am devising against this family an evil demise From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time.

“And I will cut off the cities of your land And pull down all your fortifications.

A day of trumpet and loud shouting Against the fortified cities And the high corner towers.

“In that day you will feel no shame Because of all your deeds By which you have transgressed against Me; For then I will remove from your midst Your proud, exulting ones, And you will never again be haughty On My holy mountain.

as we tear down speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—for our witness to you was believed.