Lexicon :: Strong's H8213 - šāp̄ēl

“The LORD makes poor and makes rich;

He brings low and He lifts up.

“And You save the afflicted people;

But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You abase (humiliate).

“When you are cast down and humbled, you will speak with confidence,

And the humble person He will lift up and save.

“Pour out the overflowings of your wrath,

And look at everyone who is proud and make him low.

For You save an afflicted and humble people,

But bring down those [arrogant fools] with haughty eyes.

But God is the Judge;

He puts down one and lifts up another.

Who humbles Himself to regard

The heavens and the earth?

The LORD lifts up the humble;

He casts the wicked down to the ground.

For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”

Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince,

Whom your eyes have seen.

A man’s pride and sense of self-importance will bring him down,

But he who has a humble spirit will obtain honor.

So the common man has been humbled [before idols]

And the man of importance has been degraded,

Therefore do not forgive them [O LORD].

The proud look of man will be degraded

And the arrogance of men will be humbled,

And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Then the pride of man will be humbled

And the arrogance of men will be degraded;

The LORD alone shall be exalted in that day,

So the common man will be bowed down and the man of importance degraded,

And the eyes of the proud (arrogant) will be degraded.

Listen carefully, the Lord, the GOD of hosts, will lop off the [beautiful] boughs with terrifying force;

The tall in stature will be cut down

And the lofty will be abased and humiliated.

In this way I will punish the world for its evil

And the wicked for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing];

I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud

And will abase the arrogance of the tyrant.

And Moab will spread out his hands in the middle of the filth

As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,

But the Lord will humiliate his pride in spite of the [skillful] movements of his hands.

“For He has thrown down the [arrogant] ones who dwell on high, the lofty and inaccessible city;

He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He hurls it to the dust.

Then you [Jerusalem] will be brought low,

You will speak from the earth,

And from the dust where you lie face down

Your muffled words will come.

Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the earth [like one produced by a medium],

And your speech will whisper and squeak from the dust.

But it will hail, when the forest comes down,

And the [capital] city will fall in utter humiliation.

“Every valley shall be raised,

And every mountain and hill be made low;

And let the rough ground become a plain,

And the rugged places a broad valley.

“You have gone to [fn]the king [of a pagan land] with oil

And increased your [fn]perfumes;

You have sent your messengers a great distance

And made them go down to Sheol (the realm of the dead).

Say to the king and the queen mother,

“Humble yourselves and take a lowly seat,

For your beautiful crown [the crown of your glory]

Has come down from your head.”