⁹ Thus do I mar the excellency of Judah, And the great excellency of Jerusalem.

¹⁹ and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;

¹¹ In that day thou art not ashamed because of any of thine actions, Wherewith thou hast transgressed against Me, For then do I turn aside from thy midst The exulting ones of thine excellency, And thou dost add no more to be haughty, In My holy mountain.

¹⁵ Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.

¹⁶ Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

¹⁷ And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.

⁹ Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

¹⁰ Enter into a rock, and be hidden in dust, Because of the fear of Jehovah, And because of the honour of His excellency.

¹¹ The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

¹² For a day `is' to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

¹³ And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴ And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,

¹⁵ And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,

¹⁶ And for all ships of Tarshish, And for all desirable pictures.

¹⁷ And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

⁶ and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

² For turned back hath Jehovah to the excellency of Jacob, As `to' the excellency of Israel, For emptied them out have emptiers, And their branches they have marred.

⁵⁶ And thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth, In the day of thine arrogancy,

⁵⁰ And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.

⁵ For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

⁶ `To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷ Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

⁸ Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

²⁹ We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, Exceeding proud! His haughtiness, and his arrogance, And his pride, and the height of his heart,

⁴ and marred is the vessel that he is making, as clay in the hand of the potter, and he hath turned and he maketh it another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make.

⁵ And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying:

⁶ As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So `are' ye in My hand, O house of Israel.

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab -- very proud, His pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath, Not right `are' his devices.

¹⁸ Before destruction `is' pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

¹² See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.