Quotes About Humility

Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.

To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.

Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.

Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

We have heard of Moabís pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.

I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.

For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.

Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ëWho can come against me?í

“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.

The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potterís hands!

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.