Quotes About Humility

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.

Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ëWhat are you making?í Does your work say, ëHe has no handsí?

Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?

Surely they will say of Me, ëIn the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.í” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.

The gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.

Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

“Sit in silence and go into darkness, O Daughter of Chaldea. For you will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms.

You said, ëI will be queen forever.í You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ëNo one sees me.í Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ëI am, and there is none besides me.í

I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ëLie down, so we can walk over you,í so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.