Lexicon :: Strong's H8213 - šāp̄ēl

The LORD brings poverty and gives wealth;

he humbles and he exalts.

You rescue an oppressed people,

but your eyes are set against the proud —

you humble them.

When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,”

God will save the humble.[fn]

Pour out your raging anger;

look on every proud person and humiliate him.

For you rescue an oppressed people,

but you humble those with haughty eyes.

for God is the Judge:

He brings down one and exalts another.

who stoops down to look

on the heavens and the earth?

The LORD helps the oppressed

but brings the wicked to the ground.

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here! ”

than to demote you in plain view of a noble.[fn]

A person’s pride will humble him,

but a humble spirit will gain honor.

So humanity is brought low,

and each person is humbled.

Do not forgive them!

The pride of mankind[fn] will be humbled,

and human loftiness will be brought low;

the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.

The pride of mankind will be brought low,

and human loftiness will be humbled;

the LORD alone will be exalted on that day.

Humanity is brought low, each person is humbled,

and haughty eyes are humbled.

Look, the Lord GOD of Armies

will chop off the branches with terrifying power,

and the tall trees will be cut down,

the high trees felled.

I will punish the world for its evil,

and wicked people for their iniquities.

I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant

and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

He will spread out his arms in the middle of it,

as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.

His pride will be brought low,

along with the trickery of his hands.

For he has humbled those who live in lofty places —

an inaccessible city.

He brings it down; he brings it down to the ground;

he throws it to the dust.

You will be brought down;

you will speak from the ground,

and your words will come from low in the dust.

Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;

your speech will whisper from the dust.

But hail will level the forest,[fn]

and the city will sink into the depths.

Every valley will be lifted up,

and every mountain and hill will be leveled;

the uneven ground will become smooth

and the rough places, a plain.

You went to the king with oil

and multiplied your perfumes;

you sent your envoys far away

and sent them down even to Sheol.

Say to the king and the queen mother:

Take a humble seat,

for your glorious crowns

have fallen from your heads.

“Then all the trees of the field will know

that I am the LORD.

I bring down the tall tree,

and make the low tree tall.

I cause the green tree to wither

and make the withered tree thrive.

I, the LORD, have spoken

and I will do it.’ ”

“This is what the Lord GOD says:

Remove the turban, and take off the crown.

Things will not remain as they are;[fn]

exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.