Humanity is brought low, man is humbled, and haughty eyes are humbled.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Then I thought: They are just the poor; they have played the fool. For they don't understand the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the fetters.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the military commanders, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

because the great day of Their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?"

You went to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far away and sent [them] down even to Sheol.

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his fleshly mind.

Although these have a reputation of wisdom by promoting ascetic practices, humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value against fleshly indulgence.

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

But Joshua told the people, "You will not be able to worship the LORD, because He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not remove your transgressions and sins.

But You, LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt; do not blot out their sin before You. Let them be forced to stumble before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"--