Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of Armies Himself planned Tyre's downfall to defile her pride and humble the honored of the earth. Human glory is brought low so God alone is exalted.

Cross-references · 22

• Isa 13:11And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
• Jas 4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
• Job 40:11–12Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Dan 4:37Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Acts 4:28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
• Isa 5:15–16And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
• Isa 14:24The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Isa 2:17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Job 12:21He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
• Isa 5:13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• Isa 10:33Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
• Isa 9:15The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
• Isa 14:27For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
• Ps 107:40He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
• Eph 1:11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
• Isa 46:10–11Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
• Eph 3:11According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
• Jer 47:6–7O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
• 1 Cor 1:26–29For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
• Mal 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Jer 51:62Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

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