Bible Verses About Pride

The pride of man will be bowed down, the arrogance of men will be humiliated, and when that day comes, ADONAI alone will be exalted.

Moreover ADONAI says: "Because Tziyon's women are so proud, walking with their heads in the air and throwing seductive glances, moving with mincing steps and jingling their anklets

Adonai will strike the crown of the heads of Tziyon's women with sores, and ADONAI will expose their private parts."

On that day Adonai will take away their finery - their anklets, medallions and crescents,

their pendants, bracelets and veils;

their headbands, armlets, sashes, perfume bottles, amulets,

rings and nose-jewels;

their fine dresses, wraps, shawls, handbags,

gauze scarves, linen underclothes, turbans and capes.

Then, there will be instead of perfume, a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well-set hair, a shaved scalp; instead of a rich robe, a sackcloth skirt; and a slave-brand instead of beauty.

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

Her gates will lament and mourn; ravaged, she will sit on the ground.

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, until there's no room for anyone else, and you live in splendor alone on your land.

The masses are lowered, the nobles are humbled - proud looks will be brought down.

All the people know it, Efrayim and the inhabitants of Shomron. But they say in pride, in the arrogance of their hearts,

"The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with cut stone; the sycamore-fig trees have been chopped down, but we will replace them with cedars."

"Oh Ashur, the rod expressing my anger! The club in their hands is my fury!

I am sending him against a hypocritical nation, ordering him to march against a people who enrage me, to take the spoil and the plunder and trample them down like mud in the street.

That is not what Ashur intends, that is not what they think; rather, they mean to destroy, to cut down nation after nation.

For [their king] says, 'Aren't all my commanders kings?

Hasn't Kalno [suffered] like Kark'mish, Hamat like Arpad, Shomron like Dammesek?

Just as my hand reached the kingdoms of non-gods, with more images than in Yerushalayim and Shomron;

so won't I do to Yerushalayim and her non-gods what I did to Shomron and her idols?'"

Therefore when Adonai has done everything he intends to do to Mount Tziyon and Yerushalayim, "I will punish the king of Ashur for the boasting that comes from his proud heart and from reveling in his arrogant looks.

For he says, "'With my own strong arm I have done this, and with my wisdom, because I'm so clever! I erased the boundaries between peoples, I plundered their stores for the future; as a mighty man, I subjugated the inhabitants.