Isaiah 26:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

For He brings down those who dwell on high; the lofty city, He lays it low; He lays it low, even to the ground; He brings it even to the dust.

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  • Job 40:11-13 : 11 Cast afar the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone that is proud, and abase him. 12 Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. 13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
  • Isa 2:12 : 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low:
  • Isa 13:11 : 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
  • Isa 14:13 : 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
  • Isa 25:11-12 : 11 And He will stretch forth His hands in their midst, as he who swims spreads his hands to swim; and He will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. 12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
  • Isa 32:19 : 19 Though hail comes down on the forest, and the city is brought low in humiliation.
  • Isa 47:1 : 1 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
  • Jer 50:31-32 : 31 Behold, I am against you, O most proud, says the Lord GOD of hosts: for your day has come, the time that I will visit you. 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall help him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all around him.
  • Jer 51:25-26 : 25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. 26 They shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate forever, says the LORD.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 51:64 : 64 And you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried out mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become the dwelling of demons, and the prison of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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    12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

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    6The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor and the steps of the needy.

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    15And the humble man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

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    6The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.

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    11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

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    12Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

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    6The LORD kills and makes alive: he brings down to the grave and brings up.

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    20when I shall bring you down with those who descend into the pit, with the people of old, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places long desolate, with those who go down to the pit, so that you are not inhabited; and I will set beauty in the land of the living,

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    3For behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

    4And the mountains will be molten under him, and the valleys will be split, as wax before the fire, and as waters that are poured down a steep place.

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    5You will bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

  • Ps 138:6
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    6Though the LORD is high, yet He respects the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.

  • Isa 32:19
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    19Though hail comes down on the forest, and the city is brought low in humiliation.

  • Isa 40:23
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    16Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

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    23A man's pride will bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

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    4And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as one that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

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    2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, like a flood of mighty waters overflowing, who shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

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    27For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.

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    9The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to mar the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

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    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.