⁴ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:

⁵ Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, And the rough ways smooth.

²⁶ thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.

² I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;

¹² For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty, And for all that is lifted up; And it shall be brought low:

¹³ For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, For all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴ For all the high mountains, For all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵ For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,

¹⁴ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

¹⁵ I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

¹⁶ I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.

¹¹ Pour forth the fury of your anger. Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

¹² Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

¹³ Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

⁵² He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

⁵³ He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

²⁴ All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.

¹¹ Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

⁷ He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

⁸ That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.

⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.

¹⁵ Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: