Psalms 119:21

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Psalms 119:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

20 My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

21 You rebuke the arrogant— the cursed who stray from Your commandments.

22 Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

23 Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

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Psalms 119:78

May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

Psalms 138:6

Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”

Job 40:11

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

Job 40:12

Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Isaiah 2:11

The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—

Isaiah 10:12

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

Ezekiel 28:3

Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

Ezekiel 28:4

By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.

Ezekiel 28:5

By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.

Ezekiel 28:6

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,

Ezekiel 28:7

behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 28:8

They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Ezekiel 28:10

You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

Daniel 5:22

But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Daniel 5:24

Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

James 4:6

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 5:5

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Psalms 119:10

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

Psalms 119:110

The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.

Psalms 119:118

You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

Deuteronomy 27:15

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:16

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:17

‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:18

‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:20

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:21

‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:22

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:23

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:24

‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:25

‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:26

‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 28:15

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

Nehemiah 9:16

But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.

Nehemiah 9:29

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

Isaiah 42:24

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

Isaiah 43:28

So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

Jeremiah 44:9

Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 44:10

To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.

Jeremiah 44:11

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Jeremiah 44:28

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

Jeremiah 44:29

This will be a sign to you that I will punish you in this place, declares the LORD, so that you may know that My threats of harm against you will surely stand.

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”