Footnote:
Job 40:12. Psalm 18:27. Compare Zephaniah 2:15. Revelation 18:7, 8, and references on Chapter 16:18, 19.
Job 40:12
12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Psalm 18:27
27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Compare
Zephaniah 2:15
15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Revelation 18:7, 8
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
and references on
Proverbs 16:18, 19
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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