The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
Parallel translations
- WEB The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
- 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 10:29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto 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, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
- Rev 11:2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
- 2 Kgs 9:33And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot.
- Dan 8:13Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
- Isa 25:10For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
- Lam 1:15The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
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