Ezekiel 21:26
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn aside the mitre, and bear away the crown, This — not this — the low make high, And the high make low.
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1 Samuel 2:7Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.
2 Kings 25:27And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,
Psalms 113:7He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.
Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low — sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.
Jeremiah 52:9and they capture the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he speaketh with him — judgments.
Lamentations 5:16Fallen hath the crown [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:19-28
Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 18 The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination:… Read the whole commentary →