The end has come on you,

For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as labor pains upon the woman that is pregnant, and they shall by no means escape.

And fire has gone out of a rod of her choice [boughs,] and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race has become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

that you may slay victims; be sharpened, that you may be bright, ready for slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.

and what if even the tribe be rejected? It shall not be, says the Lord God.

And it came to pass on the next day, that Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed, and put forth a bud, and bloomed blossoms and produced almonds.

Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of My wrath and anger are in their hands.

Out of the mouth of fools comes a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise preserve them.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

Now therefore, I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all His works are true, and His paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride He is able to abase.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."