“Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise the rod?” declares the Lord God.
sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)
And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.
Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,
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