Bible verse
So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.
Isaiah 5:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 5.
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
13 Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
15 So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.
16 But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
17 Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
19 to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
KJV
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
ASV
And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled:
ERV
And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled:
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