² Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

¹⁶ Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

² that Azariah son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and all the proud men, speak unto Jeremiah, saying, `Falsehood thou art speaking; Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Do not enter Egypt to sojourn there;

¹⁶ Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?

¹³ And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.

¹² And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

¹³ For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

⁵ The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

¹²² Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.

⁸⁵ The proud have digged for me pits, That `are' not according to Thy law.

⁶⁹ Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

¹² The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

¹¹ Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.

¹⁸ Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

¹⁵ Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

¹¹ now I have known that Jehovah `is' greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly -- `He is' above them!'

¹⁷ still thou art exalting thyself against My people -- so as not to send them away;