The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
Parallel translations
- KJV The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
- BSB The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.
- NKJV The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, Will be trampled underfoot;
- NASB The splendid crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim is trampled underfoot.
- NLT The proud city of Samaria— the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel— will be trampled beneath its enemies’ feet.
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The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled underfoot.
Overview
The boastful glory of Ephraim's leaders will be brought low and trodden down in judgment. What was exalted in pride is humbled in the dust. This recurring biblical reversal warns that God opposes the proud and lifts up the humble, a principle fulfilled in Christ's exaltation of the lowly.
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- Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Isa 26:6The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.”
- Isa 28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
- Rev 11:2Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
- 2 Kgs 9:33He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
- Dan 8:13Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot?
- Isa 25:10For in this mountain Yahweh’s hand will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
- Lam 1:15“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden as in a wine press the virgin daughter of Judah.
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