Silence those liars--- all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.

Do not let proud people attack me or the wicked make me run away.

Sin is on their lips; all their words are sinful; may they be caught in their pride! Because they curse and lie,

How I hope that I shall be faithful in keeping your instructions!

The proud have told lies about me, but with all my heart I obey your instructions.

The proud, who do not obey your law, have dug pits to trap me.

Promise that you will help your servant; don't let the arrogant oppress me!

The proud have set a trap for me; they have laid their snares, and along the path they have set traps to catch me.

Yet you are still arrogant and refuse to let my people go.

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, because he did this when the Egyptians treated the Israelites with such contempt."

But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride."

The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there.

You were determined to climb up to heaven and to place your throne above the highest stars. You thought you would sit like a king on that mountain in the north where the gods assemble.

The dead will stare and gape at you. They will ask, "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble?

Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other arrogant men said to me, "You are lying. The LORD our God did not send you to tell us not to go and live in Egypt.

So they are punished by their own evil and are hurt by their own violence.

The heathen have dug a pit and fallen in; they have been caught in their own trap.

The LORD has revealed himself by his righteous judgments, and the wicked are trapped by their own deeds.

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.