He performs mightily with His arm; He scatters the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.

who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: Why did the nations rage, and the people devise vain things?

The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers themselves were gathered against the Lord and against His Christ.

because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are mighty;

that no flesh should boast in His presence.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness;

And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah; neither will I let Israel go.

And indeed for this purpose I have ordained you, to show My power in you, and to declare My name in all the earth.

As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.

Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Because your rage against Me and your arrogance have come up into My ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you have come.

Scatter abroad the outburst of your anger; look upon everyone who is proud, and humiliate him.

Look upon everyone who is proud, and humble him; tread down the wicked in their place.

Therefore I despise myself, and have repented in dust and ashes.

Through the pride of his countenance the wicked do not seek after God; God is not in all his schemes.

For You will save the lowly people, but will bring down lofty looks.

The lofty eyes of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down; but Jehovah, He alone, shall be exalted in that day.

For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall come upon all the proud and lofty ones, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

And the pride of man shall be bowed down; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bowing to you; and all those who despised you shall prostrate themselves at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you, The City of Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the King of Heaven, for all His works are truth, and His ways are justice. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you. And you, and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, and do not know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand your life, breath, and all your ways is.

And this is the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

TEKEL: You are weighed in the balances and found deficient.

Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a necklace of gold around his neck. And they made a proclamation concerning him, that he should rule third in the kingdom.

And he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?

So he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what do You have in mind for me to do? Then the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.

though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so:

concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless.

But no, rather, I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is honored, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, declaring of himself that he is God.

And then the lawless one will be unveiled, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest unto your souls.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

And Jehovah smelled a soothing aroma. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again smite every living thing as I have done.

Beware that there not be a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, approaches; and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to Jehovah against you, and it become sin unto you.

You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thoughts afar off.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to Jehovah, but the words of the pure are pleasant.

The wicked devices of foolishness is sin; and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual perversions, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

For the Word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; the children of foreigners shall cower before me.

Jehovah shall send the staff of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies.

Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; in the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn, You have the dew of Your youth.

Through Him we have received grace and apostleship unto obedience of faith among all nations for His name,

but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the eternal God, for obedience to the faith;

And having been found perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

but as He who called you is holy, you also become holy in all conduct,

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,