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 13:11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Job 40:11–12Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Acts 4:28to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
• Isa 5:15–16So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
• Isa 14:24Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Job 12:21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
• Isa 5:13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
• Isa 10:33Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
• Isa 9:15The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
• Isa 14:27For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
• Ps 107:40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
• Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
• Isa 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
• Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;
• Jer 47:6–7“‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’
• 1 Cor 1:26–29For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
• Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Jer 51:62and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’

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