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

And the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

"How long [shall I bear with] this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.

And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD [is] God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people answered him not a word.

"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

'This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, who follow the dictates of their hearts, and walk after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing.

'She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that [are] all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.'

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more [shall we not escape] if we turn away from Him who [speaks] from heaven,

"See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days. In the days of his son I will bring the calamity on his house."

"if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

Also his prayer and [how God] received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they [are] written among the sayings of Hozai.

"because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard [you,"] says the LORD.

Therefore I abhor [myself,] And repent in dust and ashes."

Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor [is] humility.

Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, "Humble yourselves; Sit down, For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory."

Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,