Which other scriptures highlight God's response to pride similar to Jeremiah 50:29? Jeremiah 50:29—God’s Stand against Arrogance “Summon the archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her, let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.” Babylon’s military disaster is not random—it is calculated retribution for pride that “defied the LORD.” That same pattern threads through the whole canon. Wisdom Literature: Pride Meets Certain Ruin • Proverbs 8:13 – “To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.” • Proverbs 16:5 – “Everyone with a proud heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.” • Proverbs 16:18 – “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” • Psalm 18:27 – “For You save an afflicted people, but haughty eyes You humble.” • Psalm 101:5 – “Whoever has a haughty eye and a proud heart, him I will not endure.” Prophetic Warnings: National and Personal • Isaiah 2:11-12 – “The proud look of man will be humbled and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. For the LORD of Hosts has planned a day against all the proud and lofty.” • Isaiah 13:11 – “I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud and humble the haughtiness of the ruthless.” • Obadiah 1:3-4 – “The pride of your heart has deceived you… Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down.” • Jeremiah 49:16 – “As for the terror you inspire and the pride of your heart… I will bring you down from there.” • Malachi 4:1 – “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble.” Narrative Snapshots: Living Proof • 2 Chronicles 26:16 – King Uzziah “grew proud to his own destruction” and was struck with leprosy. • Daniel 4:30-37 – Nebuchadnezzar boasts, is driven mad, then confesses: “He is able to humble those who walk in pride.” • Esther 7:10 – Haman’s gallows became his own undoing, a vivid reversal of arrogant plotting. New Testament Echoes: God Still Opposes Pride • Luke 1:51 – “He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.” • Luke 14:11 – “Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” • James 4:6 – “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” • 1 Peter 5:5 – “Clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’” • Revelation 18:7 – Babylon the Great says, “I sit enthroned as queen… I will never see grief,” yet her judgment comes “in a single day.” Consistent Themes Worth Noting • Pride provokes immediate, active resistance from God. • Judgment may be personal (Uzziah) or national (Babylon), but it is always sure. • Humility is the only safe posture—God “gives grace to the humble.” • The same Lord who literally judged ancient empires will literally judge the proud at the end of the age. The testimony of Scripture is unanimous: pride lifts itself up only to meet the steady, holy opposition of the Lord. |
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