But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and [his] honor was taken from him.

They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness; they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

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

He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad.

Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.

If he should draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by My faith.

But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry."'

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

Likewise, younger [people], subject yourselves to [the] elders. And all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, because "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And it came to pass as they moved from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one language of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they have undertaken to do.

And the Lord scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.

Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the rage of His wrath.

And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

standing from afar on account of the fear of her torment, saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! Because in one hour your judgment came.'

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence Babylon the great city shall be cast down, and shall by no means be found anymore.

From You [come] wealth and glory. You, O Lord, rule over all, the Lord of all dominion, and in Your hand [is] strength and rule; and [You are] almighty with Your hand to increase and establish all things.

But who am I, and what [is] my people, that we have been able to be thus forward [in offering] to You? For all things [are] Yours, and of Your own have we given You,

And the house which I am building [is to be] great: for the Lord our God [is] great beyond all gods.

And who will be able to build Him a house? For the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain His glory. And who am I, that I should build Him a house, except only to burn incense before Him?

And if they should say to him, You alone are ruler;

As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms; howl, you idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, [that] I will visit upon the proud heart, [even] upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.

And I will shake the inhabited cities; and I will take with My hand all the world as a nest; and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape Me, or contradict Me.

For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Lebanon, and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses, and I entered into the height of the forest region;

and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God.

Have you gained power for yourself by your [own] knowledge or your [own] prudence, and [gathered] gold and silver in your treasures?

and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you O Pharaoh, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

O king, the Most High God gave to your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, and majesty, and honor, and glory.

And by reason of the majesty which He gave to him, all nations, tribes, [and] languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he exalted; and whomever he wished, he abased.

And after this, after he had shown to them the wealth of his kingdom, and the abundant glory of his wealth during a hundred and eighty days,

Man that is in honor, understands not; he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is likened unto them.

[A Psalm] of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, You are very great; You have clothed Yourself with praise and honor;

And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of Your holiness, and recount Your wonders.

They shall utter the memory of the abundance of Your goodness, and shall exalt in Your righteousness.

The Lord is good to those that wait [on Him]; and His compassions are over all His works.

They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your dominion;

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all things for the glory of God.

And the nations shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth shall bring to it [the] glory and honor of the nations into it.

And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it, so that they may enter.