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²³Humiliation follows the arrogant. And glory shall uphold the humble in spirit.

¹⁶Be of the same mind toward one another: not savoring what is exalted, but consenting in humility. Do not choose to seem wise to yourself.

⁹Rejoice well, daughter of Zion, shout for joy, daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your King will come to you: the Just One, the Savior. He is poor and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt, the son of a donkey.

²Wherever arrogance may be, there too is insult. But wherever humility is, there too is wisdom.

¹⁵For this is said by the Most High, the Sublime One, who dwells in eternity. And his name is Holy, for he dwells in the exalted and holy place, and he acts with a restrained and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

²⁸Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”

²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light.”

³Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.

⁹Now a humble brother should glory in his exaltation, ¹⁰and a rich one, in his humiliation, for he will pass away like the flower of the grass.

¹A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods. ²How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners? ³Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor. ⁴Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner. ⁵They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved. ⁶I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.

²⁸And God has chosen the ignoble and contemptible of the world, those who are nothing, so that he may reduce to nothing those who are something. ²⁹So then, nothing that is of the flesh should glory in his sight.

¹The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach and its respite in Damascus. For the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is of the Lord. ²Hamath also is at its limits, and Tyre and Sidon. For, of course, they have assumed themselves to be exceedingly wise. ³And Tyre has built herself a fortress, and she has piled together silver, as if it were soil, and gold, as if it were the mud of the streets. ⁴Behold, the Lord will possess her, and he will strike her strength in the sea, and she will be devoured by fire. ⁵Ashkelon will see and be afraid. Both Gaza and he will be very sorrowful, as well as Ekron, because her hope has been confounded. And the king will pass away from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. ⁶And the divider will sit in Ashdod, and I will scatter the arrogance of the Philistines.

²And he will rise up like a tender plant in his sight, and like a root from the thirsty ground. There is no beautiful or stately appearance in him. For we looked upon him, and there was no aspect, such that we would desire him. ³He is despised and the least among men, a man of sorrows who knows infirmity. And his countenance was hidden and despised. Because of this, we did not esteem him.

⁵All the arrogant are an abomination to the Lord. Even if hand will be joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is to do justice. And this is more acceptable with God than to immolate sacrifices.

¹⁸Arrogance precedes destruction. And the spirit is exalted before a fall. ¹⁹It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the arrogant.

²¹who will transform the body of our lowliness, according to the form of the body of his glory, by means of that power by which he is even able to subject all things to himself.