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Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them! Shall I not go and kill him, and remove this day [this] reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?

And David said to the Philistine, You come to me with sword, and with spear, and with shield; but I come to you in the name of the Lord God of hosts, of the army of Israel, which you have defied this day.

And he took up his parable, and said, Balak king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, call for a curse upon Israel for me.

How can I curse whom the Lord has not cursed? Or how can I denounce whom God has not denounced?

And he defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimei brother of David, killed him.

And after him Eleazer the son of his uncle, son of Dodai who was among the three mighty men with David; and when he defied the Philistines they were gathered there to war, and the men of Israel went up.

And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Gesham the Arabian, heard [it], and they laughed us to scorn, and came to us, and said, What [is] this thing that you are doing? Are you revolting against the king?

[ 40:4] Have you an arm like the Lord's? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

[ 40:6] And send forth messengers with wrath, and lay low every haughty one.

For You have maintained my cause and my right; You sat on the throne, that judges in righteousness.

You have rebuked the nations, and the ungodly one has perished; You have blotted out their name forever, even forever and ever.

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

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

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.