Bible Verses About Pride

So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms;

their signet rings and nose rings;

their festive robes, capes, cloaks, and purses;

and their mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and shawls.

Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

All the people will know it— Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:

“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.