Quotes About Humility

You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ëHere I am.í If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,

The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

you say, ëI am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.í Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ëI have not sinned.í

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

I know, O LORD, that a manís way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.

Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.í

Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.