We have heard about Moab’s pride, their great arrogance, their boasting, pride, and excess. But their boastful claims are empty!

“I, the Lord, say: ‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.

I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves.

A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

For the Lord will restore the majesty of Jacob, as well as the majesty of Israel, though their enemies have plundered them and have destroyed their fields.

In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Then they cry out – but he does not answer – because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Adorn yourself, then, with majesty and excellency, and clothe yourself with glory and honor!

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

They lift their voices and shout joyfully; they praise the majesty of the Lord in the west.

In your days of majesty, was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth,

I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

when I said, ‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)

They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the Lord, from his royal splendor!

Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.

The Lord who commands armies planned it – to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.