³ Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

⁶ For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

²⁹ Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.

¹⁰ Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

²⁷ And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.

¹¹ The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

¹⁰ These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

¹⁸ Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

⁶ And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.

⁴ Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

²⁵ See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

⁵ Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

²⁸ And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?

²⁷ How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.

²¹ And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.

¹⁴ If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.

¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

¹⁹ And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

⁶ For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

²⁴ Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

¹⁷ Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?