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271 SCRIPTURES on the theme of Humility

Luke 14:11 For [YAH] smacks down anyone who exalts himself, 😇. [Conversely, YAH] exalts anyone who humbles himself.”
Luke 18:17 I tell you the rock-solid [Truth], 😇: Whoever fails to accept the Dominion of YHVH [the Eloah] like a little child absolutely never enters YAH's Kingdom.”
note: Whatever command you read in the Bible, do it immediately. No more pornography. No more oaths. No more pledges. No more addictions. No more debt. Get rid of the smut in your house. Sell all you have. Use the money to help poor [people of every kind]. Get free from your employer's shackles. Learn the Bible. Don't rationalize. Never make excuses. Just do it. Now. Be your Father in Heaven's little, obedient, humble child.
IsaiYAH 66:2 My hand makes everything that ever was, is, or will be [in the universe],” declares YHVH. “I only focus on one [type of] man, 😇: people with humble, repentant spirits, who tremble at my word.
Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, 😇. They inherit the earth.
Matthew 20:26 But you, [my disciples,] must not exercise authority & dominion over other people, 😇. Rather, whoever among you wants to be [a] great [leader] must become the [greatest] servant.
note: In the Creator's dominion, leaders wash beggars' feet. When's the last time you saw a President, a Governor, a Senator, a Mayor, a CEO, wash anyone's feet? Never. Start a "Fresh Socks" ministry. Go to the worst part of your city. Find homeless bums. Wash their feet. Give them a pair of fresh socks. Give yourself a promotion in the only political body that matters.
Matthew 20:27 Whoever wants to be first [among you] must be your slave, 😇!
Matthew 23:11 Rather, 😇, whoever is greatest among you is your servant.
note: See great Matt 23:11 Song.
Matthew 23:12 [YAH] smashes down everyone who exalts themselves. And [YAH] exalts anyone who humbles himself, 😇.
Mark 9:35 YahShua sits down. He calls the ‘12’ [disciples]. He says to them, “If any man desires to be first, 😇, he must be last of all, the servant of all.”
Mark 10:15 I tell you the truth, 😇: Whoever fails to accept the Dominion of [YHVH] the Eloah like a little child will never enter YAH's Kingdom.”
Mark 10:31 But many [people] who [now] run [in] first [place in the world finish] last [in the race to eternal life, 😇]. Meanwhile, [many of the] last [people on the world's success list] come [in] first [in the race to heaven].”
Mark 10:43 But among you [(my disciples) there must never be even a hint of hierarchical alpha-male wolf-pack domination], 😇! [No Christian can ever exercise authority or lordship over others, as pagan leaders do.] Rather, among you, whoever wants to be great must be your servant.
note: Clearly condemning the organizational structure of the mother-whore Catholic church and its protestant harlot daughters. And church administrators who call the cops on harmless loiterers, and who force anyone who wants to work or volunteer at a church to undergo biometric-scanning and a criminal background check.
Mark 10:44 And whoever of you, 😇, wants to be the chief must be the servant of all.
Luke 7:38 [The whore] stands behind YahShua, weeping. [Her head hangs down] by YahShua's feet. She washes YahShua's feet with tears, 😇! She wipes YahShua's feet with the hair of her head. She kisses his feet. She rubs his feet with the [nearly-priceless] ointment.
John 13:14 So since I, your Sovereign and Teacher, wash your feet, you too ought to wash each other's feet, 😇.
Psalms 62:9 Lowborn men are just a breath, 😇. [And] ‘highborn’ [people] are just a lie. Weigh them together on a balance, [you get] nothing, 😇. [All mortals put] together amount to no more than an empty [puff of hot air].
Proverbs 27:2 😇, let other human[s] praise you. Stop your own mouth [from bragging]. 3rd-party [testimonials beat anything you can say] with your own lips.
note: Your ‘self’ promotion should come 100% from unbiased 3rd party testimonials.
Mark 10:14 YahShua sees [his disciples shooing away eager children]. Immediately YahShua's [face blooms red with] anger, 😇. He corrects his disciples, “Let the little children come to me! Never forbid [boys or girls to approach me]! For the Kingdom of [YHVH] the Eloah belongs to [beings with childlike hearts, not to religious security guards].
note: Yahshua is interested in people of all ages worshiping together. Yahshua is not a fan of religious cops who kick children out of [adult] church, sending the children away to kiddie services. But the religionites want the children gone because children are honest enough to admit that the plastic preacher is a boring droning hypocrite who deserves no attention because he has no authority from YAH. People who have YAH's authority can hold a child's attention. Real comunicators tell short, dramatic, visual stories with songs. Truth-tellers powerfully impact people of all ages. People with authority may be offensive. But they are never boring when addressing others. Children instinctively know this. Leo Tolstoy said that every communication should be designed to hold the attention of a friendly 7 year-old boy. If your preacher can't do that, replace the preacher, not the boy.
Luke 7:44 YahShua turns to [face] the [whore] woman. He says to Simon {Listener}, “Do you see you this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet. Yet she washed my feet with tears! She wiped my feet with the hair of her head!
Luke 9:48 YahShua says to his disciples, “Whoever receives this child in my Name [Authority] receives me. And whoever receives me receives [YHVH] who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, ends up [being the] great[est].”
note: Your mikros are your megas. The least self-important person among you is the most important. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This may imply that you are to attend to the child's (and disciples') needs with the same honor you would attend to Yahshua's needs.
Luke 18:14 I tell you, 😇, this [repentant wrongdoer] goes back to his house justified, while the [proud] religionite [remains condemned]. For [YAH] bashes down everyone who exalts himself. Likewise, [YAH] lifts-up everyone who humbles himself.”
Luke 22:26 But you, 😇, must never [dominate, oppress nor subjugate anyone. Never in any way] act like [the world's so-called authorities]. Rather, whoever is greatest among you must be [humble like the greenest] youngster. Any [real Christian] ‘chief’ [leads by] serving.
note: Martin Luther and John Calvin and the Popes and their murderous imitators didn't understand this verse. Just ask the Amish whose ancestors got driven out of Europe and nearly exterminated by ‘CHRISTIAN AUTHORITIES’ DRIVING ‘CHRISTIAN ARMIES’ against true Christians. The world's authorities are trojan-horse-trick-benefactors. Paid preachers dupe the gullible, gluttonous beast-peoples into cowardly submission.
John 13:5 YahShua pours water into a basin, 😇. Then [he] circles [around the room] washing the feet of his disciples, then wiping their feet with the towel wrapped around himself.
2nd Corinthians 4:7 Yet, 😇, we [believers] hold this [heavenly] treasure in ‘jars of clay.’ [Our mortality] shows that [our] splendid power comes from [YHVH] the Eloah, not from ourselves.
note: Sometimes YAH gives us power to do amazing feats. We can shine with supernatural wisdom. Yet we live trapped in mortal dirt bodies which die and fail. We are not gods. Like Christ, our brightest moment of triumph is when we love our own murderers.
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of [YHVH] the Adonai. Then He lifts you up, 😇.
note: Get down on your knees. Plant your face on the ground in front of YAH. Pray. Get outside. Dig your fingernails brown with cow manure, planting food to eat and share with poor people. Humble Yourself Song.
Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the ‘poor in spirit’, 😇. For they [own] the Kingdom of Heaven.
note: ‘Poor in spirit’ could mean ‘Paupers have an open door to spiritual riches,’ or ‘God blesses humble people’, or ‘You get blessed when you reach the end of your rope.’
Matthew 18:4 So, 😇, the greatest [being] in the Kingdom of Heaven is whoever humbles himself like this little child.
Matthew 23:8 😇, don't let people call you ‘Rabbi.’ For you have only one Rabbi, [me, YAH's] Messiah. And you're all brothers.
note: Generally avoid all titles of honor such as Master, Teacher, Captain, Lord, Principal, etc. Greek#4461 rhabbi hrab-bee' my master, i.e Rabbi, an official title of honor. See HEBREW for #07227.
Matthew 23:9 And 😇, call no man on the earth your ‘father.’ For you have only 1 Father: [YHVH] who is in heaven.
note: OK, we're not Catholic bashing, but come on... how can you priest-guys call yourselves ‘Father,’ knowing that Jesus said not to use that title for yourself, but to reserve the title ‘Father’ for YHVH? There is a deeper meaning here. The state reserves to itself the title Pater Patrias, ‘Father of the Nation’. From that title descend taxation, regulation and draft authority. The state considers itself to own its citizens, like a sovereign father owns his child. By your signatures and receipt of benefits, you recognize the state as your Father [Pater]. Thus you deny and disown your Father in heaven. Your Maker will not share parental rights over you with the world and its ‘Caesars’. Make the state yo' Daddy and you lose your Father in heaven.
Luke 14:8 “Say [a host] invites you to a wedding feast, 😇. Never take the highest seat [of honor]. The [host] may invite someone [he] honors higher than you.
Luke 17:10 So likewise, 😇, after you've done everything [YAH] commands, say, ‘We're just ordinary servants. We've [merely] done our duty. [We deserve no reward.]’”
note: Even if you follow every principle of Biblical law, you've only done your job. You still merit no special award.
Luke 18:13 Meanwhile, the [despised] tax-collector stands far [back from the altar, in the shadows. He trembles, afraid to] even lift up his eyes to heaven. He beats his breast, crying, “[YHVH], Eloah, be merciful to me. [I'm] a sinner!”
John 3:30 —YahShua must increase. But I must decrease.
note: Yahshua must increase [in fame and power], but I must decrease [into humility and death]. Yahshua must become more important, while I become less important.
John 13:15 I've given you an example, 😇. So you should do [to others] as I have done to you.
note: Do you regularly clean, massage, heal and purify other people's feet? Why not? Yahshua commanded you to.
Romans 12:3 [YAH] influences my heart to say to every man among you: Never think of yourself more highly than you ought, 😇. Be [soberly] honest in your estimation of yourselves. Measure your value by how much faith [YHVH] the Eloah has given you.
note: If you can't heal sick people and raise dead people, you have no reason to be arrogant. Arrogant jerks don't get the power to heal people on command.
1st Corinthians 8:2 And if any man thinks he knows anything, he doesn't yet know anything in the way he ought to know, 😇.
note: A verse for agnostics. Yet protestants still claim that they ‘know that they know that they know’ that they're going to heaven because they said a salvation prayer. How ironic. The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Ephesians 2:9 You were not saved by your good works, 😇. No one can brag.
note: But if you don't do good actions, you're not saved. You didn't start breathing by yourself. But if you're not breathing, you're dead.
James 4:14 You don’t even know one thing that'll happen tomorrow, 😇! [You may be dead in 5 minutes!] What is your life, 😇? Your life is just a mist that appears for an instant, then vanishes away.
Leviticus 23:43 [The reason I want you, 😇, to camp out in rough shelter for 1 week every year is] so that all your generations will experience how I made the children of Israel live in rough shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am YHVH, your [national] Sovereign.”
Numbers (Journeys) 12:3 [All the while,] this man Moses [takes this abuse] meekly, more humbly [than any] man [on] the face of earth, 😇, [even though he could instantly call down fire from heaven to consume his power-mad rebel siblings].
note: "Anah" in Hebrew signifies putting up with offenses from people you could easily destroy. It is the heart of nearly every act of the Messiah.
2nd Samuel 9:8 [Mephibosheth] bows [his face to the marble floor]. He replies, "What am [I]? Why would you look [with favor] on a dead dog like me, [your servant]?”
note: Humility gets you everything.
Job 25:6 How much less [bright are we] mortals, mere worms, [we] children of Adam, the [original] worm?!”
Psalms 8:4 Why would you, [the Creator of the universe,] think about mortals? Why would you visit [any] ‘son of Adam’?
Psalms 144:3 YHVH, what is man? Why would you take notice of [us worms]?! Why would you even think about any of Adam's brats?’
Matthew 23:10 Nor are you to be called masters [or teachers], 😇. For [YAH has given you] only one Master: [me, the] Messiah.
note: Anyone who calls themselves a teacher in Sunday School or Christian school is violating this commandment. Greek#2519 (2596 + 2233) kathegetes = a guide, i.e. teacher, master.
Mark 7:28 The mother answers YahShua, “Yes, Master. Yet the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.”
note: Instead of being offended, she shows great humility. So he grants her request.
Luke 7:6 So YahShua [runs] with the elders [to the Centurion's house], 😇. As YahShua approaches the house, the Centurion sends friends to YahShua with this message: “Master, don’t trouble yourself. I’m not worthy to have you come under my roof.
Luke 10:21 At that moment, YahShua fills with [YAH's] Sacred Spirit-joy. He prays, “Father [YHVH], Adonai of heaven and earth, I thank you for hiding these [truths and powers] from sophisticated and educated [people]. [You] open [mysteries] to ‘little children.’ Right on, Father. You [always] see the best way [to do anything].
Luke 14:9 —So the host who invited both of you comes to you. He says, ‘😇, give this seat to this [honorable man]!’ So you crouch. [You] waddle down in shame to the worst [broken] seat. [You hide your eyes from the other guests' laughter.]
note: Beside the smelly trash can and the nauseating poop-stench wafting out of the bathroom.
Luke 14:10 So when you get invited [anywhere, 😇], go sit down in the lowest place. Then when [your] host who invited you comes, he can say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher!’ Then you gain honor in the presence of everyone who sits eating with you.
Luke 22:27 For 😇, who [does the world consider] greater? [The boss] who kicks back [at the table] eating? Or [the waiter] who serves the food? Isn't the bigshot the Boss who sits eating? Yet I, [the King Of The Universe,] live among you as a servant.
John 1:27 —[YahShua] is the One. He follows me [in time]. [Yet YAH highly prefers YahShua over me.] I'm not [even] worthy to [be a slave who] unties [YahShua's] sandals.”
1st Corinthians 1:28 [YHVH] the Eloah chooses the lowly things of this world, 😇, the despised things— the nothings [and ‘nobodies’]—to nullify the [supposed] somebodies who [think they're] ‘something.’
1st Corinthians 1:29 So, 😇, no flesh-man can brag in YHVH's face.
1st Corinthians 2:1 Brothers, when I came to you clarifying the mysteries of [YHVH] the Eloah, I didn't [spellbind] you with eloquent lectures or philosophy.
1st Corinthians 13:12 For now we see dimly, like [kids] peering through dark glass, 😇. But [at Judgment Day] we come to see [YAH, the source of all reality,] face to face. Now I know in part. Then I'll fully know [reality], like [YHVH] fully knows me.
2nd Corinthians 12:9 But Adonai [YHVH] answered me, “My grace gets you though [this life]. My power works most perfectly when [you feel] weak.” So I'm very happy to celebrate my weaknesses, 😇, so that the Messiah’s power rests upon me.
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of rivalry or vanity, 😇. Instead, in humility, regard each other as better than yourselves.
James 4:15 So, 😇, you ought to say, “If [YHVH] the Adonai wants it to happen, we'll live, and do this, or that.”
Genesis 44:14 Judah {Celebrated} and his brothers [ride up to] to Joseph's courthouse. Joseph {Increaser} stands [on the steps, his arms crossed in judgment. His brothers] fall down before him. [Their noses hit] the ground.
Judges 8:2 [Instead of killing his mutinous attackers,] Chopper [humbly] answers the Double-Fruits, “I've achieved practically nothing compared to the [valiant victories of] your [tribe]! The ‘grapes’ [you sons] of Ephraim leave on the vines outweigh the entire harvest of my little clan (of AbiEzer {Father-Helper}).
note: A soft answer turns away war. Gideon's response shows great maturity and humility.
1st Samuel 16:11 [The prophet] SamuEl {Heard-By-El} asks Yashai, “Are all your children here?” Yashai answers, “The only son I didn't bring is the youngest. But look, he's [just a stumpy runt] sheep-herder. [He doesn't have any credentials, wealth or power.]” Yet SamuEl says to Yashai, “Send [a messenger]. Fetch the sheep-herder. We won't sit down [to eat the feast] 'til [David] comes here.”
note: Saul loses donkeys. David keeps sheep.
2nd Samuel 3:36 All the people notice [David's humble love for his perished enemy]. This impresses them. Everything king [David] does pleases all the people.
2nd Samuel 19:36 —[So I,] your servant, will just travel a little way over [the] Jordan [river valley] with you, [my] king. Anyway, why should the king repay my [meager service] with such a reward [as living in the royal palace]?
Proverbs 3:7 😇, never get wise in your own [conceited] eyes. Fear YHVH. Race away from evil.
Proverbs 11:2 When pride comes, shame follows. Meanwhile, wisdom [lives] with humble [people].
Proverbs 16:19 😇, you're better off as a humble spirit [who fellowships] with lowly [poor people], than [a crook who] divides the spoil [plunder] with arrogant [warlords].
note: Today's world economic system is based on plunder [aka gain / income]. Disconnect from the beast-system. Grow food in a humble community.
Proverbs 25:27 No good comes from eating a lot of honey, 😇. [Likewise,] it's dishonorable [for people] to seek their own honor.
note: You learn more from rejection than you learn from approval, just like you get healthier if you eat only the amount of calories you need to do your work.
Ecclesiastes 6:8 What [eternal] profit does the smart, [skilful or artful] man reap [that makes his grave any brighter] than that of a stupid man, 😇? Only humble people have any idea of how to behave around other people.
note: Only humility matters.
IsaiYAH 57:15 The high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, [YHVH] whose name is sacred, decrees, “😇, I [simultaneously] dwell in [both] the high [most] holy place, and [down] with everyone who has a broken, humble spirit. I revive the life-breath of all meek [people]. I restart the heart[s] of all repentant [beings].
Ezekiel 17:24 Then all the trees of the [human] field know that I (YHVH) bring down [every] high [stuck-up] tree, while [I] exalt the lowly tree. I dry up the [arrogant] green tree. And I make the [humble] dry tree flourish. I YHVH predict and perform [your future, 😇].’”
Matthew 6:2 So, 😇, when you do your [compassionate acts], never sound a trumpet before yourself, as do [religious and political] actors in the synagogues and in the streets. [Hypocrites] seek glory from men. I tell you the rock-solid [truth], the fakers already have [all the reward they're going to get].
Matthew 10:24 The disciple, 😇, is not above his teacher. Nor is the servant above his master.
Matthew 15:27 So the [possessed girl's Mom] answers, “True, Adoni. Yet dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table.”
note: She stayed completely humble, yet persistent. That's the secret of success.
Luke 1:38 Mary [bows]. She answers the angel, “Look. I'm the handmaid of [YHVH] Adonai. I pray my future matches your prediction.” [Poof!] The angel [vanishes from] Mary's [view].
Luke 5:8 When Simon-Peter {Rock} sees [the miraculous abundance of fish], he falls down at YahShua's knees. He cries, ‘Oh, Adoni. Please leave me—I'm too much of a sinner to be around you.’
Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Never think yourselves better than others. Rather, make humble people your friends, 😇. Never get conceited. [Or YAH will smack you down for your own good.]
1st Corinthians 1:27 Rather, [YHVH] the Eloah chooses the [people whom] the human-race [considers] ‘morons’ to confound [& disgrace] the [world's] professors, 😇. Likewise, [YHVH] the Eloah elects the strength-less [people] in the world to shame the power-mongers.
note: If you want to have power from heaven, give away your wealth to the poor. Never seek a position of worldly power.
1st Corinthians 3:7 So, 😇, neither the planter nor the waterer is anything. [The] only [somebody is YHVH] Elohim, who makes [everything] grow.
note: All mankind's science is incapable of creating one viable seed.
1st Corinthians 10:12 So, [you, 😇,] who think [you're] established: Watch out, before [you] collapse.
1st Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part, 😇. And we prophesy in part.
1st Corinthians 13:10 But when [YAH's] perfection comes, everything partial [and imperfect] passes, 😇.
2nd Corinthians 12:7 YAH apparently wants me to stay humble, 😇. Because after he showered me with amazing revelations, [he sent me] a ‘thorn in my flesh’ [a handicap, an angel of the Adversary pounding away at me]. This prevented me from becoming absurdly conceited.
Philippians 2:6 By nature, YahShua is [in the class of beings Hebrew call] “elohim” [authorities]. [YahShua is a perfect mirror of YHVH's thoughts in human form.] Yet YahShua, [unlike Satan,] never considered equality with YHVH something to be violently seized.
note: Satan tried to take over heaven, to ‘rob’ YAH's throne. Yahshua is higher than any created being. He's the Living thoughts of YAH. Yet he would never consider robbing YAH's glory. Yahshua chose instead to be YAH's most reviled, hated, brutally murdered servant. The word ‘isos’ normally translated ‘equal with’ can mean ‘similar to.’
Jude 1:9 Yet the Arch-Angel MichaEl {El-Is-Incomparable} (when contending with the devil [who was] fighting [him] over the body of Moses) didn't dare bring a railing accusation against the devil. Instead, [MichaEl] said, “Adonai [YHVH will] rebuke you.”
note: Apparently Satan wanted to claim the body of Moses, as the devil claims ownership over all sinners. But Yah resurrected Moses as a representative of the dead people who will rise to judgment. Yah similarly took Elijah to heaven as an example of those humans who will enter heaven without ever dying. That explains how Moses & Elijah talked with Jesus and his disciples on a mountain. False religionists are less than nothing. Yet they have more pride than an archangel. Satan (the devil) is (or was) the owner of the worldly nations, thus in a sense a dignitary.
1st Samuel 18:18 David {Love} [humbly] answers [king] Saul, “Who am I? What is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”
1st Samuel 18:23 So Saul's servants [whisper] those [tricky] words in David's ears. But David responds, “How can a poor man from a humble family [run in the league of, or even afford the bride price] for the daughter of a king?”
1st Samuel 24:14 Who did [you,] Israel's king, [ride] out [hunting]? Who are you chasing [down]? [I'm not your adversary! I'm] a dead dog. [I'm] a flea!
2nd Kings 1:13 The king sends a 3rd captain [Obadiah] with a 3rd battalion of 50 soldiers. This 3rd captain of 50 [men tiptoes] up [the hill]. He falls on his knees before EliJah {JAH-Is-El}. [Obadiah] begs [for mercy]. He [cries], “Oh man of Elohim, please see as precious my life, and the lives of these 50 [soldiers]. [We're] your servants.
note: Elijah thus restores authority in the right order:
first: YHVH,
then the Ecclesiastical authority,
then the political authority,
then the police-power in submission to YHVH's priests.
Mess that up, and you get a democracy which devolves into communist totalitarianism which eventually blows up the world. This 3rd captain quit the army and became the prophet Obadiah.
Psalms 33:16 No king has ever been saved by his army, no matter how massive, 😇. No mighty man gets victory through his superior strength.
Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, YHVH. Turn [your] ear to my cry. Don't hide in silence at [the sight of] my tears. I'm your guest [in the universe,] a [lowly] sojourner, like all my ancestors.
Psalms 146:8 YHVH opens the eyes of blind [beings]. [The world] bows [us Hebrews] down. But YHVH lifts [people], 😇. YHVH loves [saints who stay on the] correct path.
Psalms 147:6 YHVH lifts up meek [beings]. He casts violators down to the ground, 😇.
Proverbs 22:4 Humility and the fear of YHVH bring riches, and honor and life, 😇.
Proverbs 30:9 Don't overflow me [with material prosperity]. Or I might deny you by saying, “Who is YHVH?” Yet don't [make] me poor, or I might steal, and abuse the name of [you,] my Elohim.
Ecclesiastes 7:18 Grasp the line of humility with one hand, and the line of wisdom with your other hand. Never let go [of either line], 😇. For he who fears Elohim gets across [the tightrope of life] by holding on to both [modesty and discernment].
note: Disgusting vanilla white-bread translators reduce this pithy wisdom to the ridiculous, "The man who fears God will avoid all extremes." Hello!? What man of faith in the bible avoided extremes? All of the men of faith were hyper-extreme: David, Solomon, Elijah, Jesus, John The Baptist, Peter, Paul, James, Moses, Elisha, etc. All of these men went to the max. Most of them were murdered for it! The man who fears YAH jumps head-first into extremes!
IsaiYAH 40:6 A voice says, “Cry!” I answer, “What should I cry?” [The voice responds:] “All meat-creatures are [mere] grass, 😇. Their glory [falls] like flowers in a field.
IsaiYAH 58:5 Did I ever appoint such [phony] fast-days, 😇? [I call you to] beat down your animal-nature, to bow your head like a [beaten] reed, to spread sack-cloth and ashes [over your flesh. Repentance defines] what [I,] YHVH, call an acceptable [fast] day.
note: Or “merely languishing on ashy sackcloth beds isn't gonna cut it.”
JeremiYAH 1:6 Then I object, “Ah, Adonai YHVH! Look; I can't speak [for you]: I'm just a boy!”
JeremiYAH 9:23 YHVH says, “Smart-guy, don't brag about your wisdom. Strong man, don't brag about your might. Rich man, don't brag about your riches.
Lamentations 3:29 If [a naive] human puts his mouth in the dust [in humility], then there may be hope [for him], 😇.
ZephaniYAH 2:3 [But some] humble earthlings like you, 😇, seek YHVH. [Saints] systematically practice justice. So strive for righteousness. Work at humility. YHVH hides [meek people on the] day [of] His fire-rage.
Matthew 18:2 [So] YahShua calls a little child [over] to himself. He sets the child in the middle of the disciples.
John 13:8 Peter {Rock} protests to YahShua, “You will never wash my feet!” YahShua answers Rock, “If I don’t wash you, you have no share, [nothing to do] with me.”
Romans 11:21 [YHVH] the Eloah prunes [millions of] natural [Jewish] branches [from the tree of life]. So he might prune off you [Christians] as well, 😇!
note: Yes, there will be hundreds of millions of surprised ‘Christian’ people who fail to inherit eternal life.
Romans 14:4 Who are you, 😇, to judge another man's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And [YAH's servant] will stand. For Adonai is able to uphold [his own servants].
note: Yah can supernaturally protect people from their bad diet choices. But he doesn't usually choose to do so. He allows people to get sick and die because of their dietary choices.
1st Corinthians 1:26 Brothers, look at the [believers] among you whom [YAH] has called [to serve Him]! [YAH] calls few people who are ‘wise’ by meat-minded standards. [YAH's servants rarely] wield power or boast nobility, 😇.
note: If you want to find out who the real believers are, stop watching wealthy celebrities, famous politicians and mega-preachers. Look down in the cracks, where poor and rejected people live.
1st Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you different from anyone else, 😇? What do you have that you didn't receive [from heaven]? And since you did receive [your gifts], why do you brag as though you're a self-made man?
note: All of our talents, blessings and possessions are gifts for which we can't take credit.
Ephesians 4:2 Be totally humble and gentle, 😇. Be patient with each other. [Let] your love move you to forgive each other's faults.
1st Timothy 2:11 When a woman [invites someone to help her] learn something, she should be quiet and completely cooperative.
note: Paraphrased to indicate what we assume was Paul's balanced intent. Literally says something like: A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. This in no way places a woman in a negative position. The person who is in the most control of a situation is usually the one who is listening and analyzing.
1st Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger [believers], submit yourselves to the older [believers]. All of you, be submissive to one another. Clothe your [naked human aggression and selfishness] with humility. For YHVH opposes [all] arrogant [beings], while [he] gives [his unmerited favor] to [all] humble [beings].
note: (Proverbs 3:34)
Genesis 43:26 Joseph {Increaser} arrives [at court, 😇. His brothers] bring in to him the gifts they'd prepared. They lay their bodies [and faces] to the ground before [Joseph].
Genesis 50:19 Joseph {Increaser} [corrects] his brothers, “Don't [fear] me! Am I in the place of Elohim?
note: Don't worry about me taking revenge. Worry about how YAH's gonna whoop you.
Judges 8:3 —Elohim delivered into your hands the princes of Midian: Oreb {Raven} and Zeeb {Wolf}. What could I do to match [the glory] you've [achieved]?” By uttering that [humble compliment, Gideon gets the Double-fruits] to simmer down.
note: Wide-Open Jephthah creates a war by blowing the same situation that Gideon sails through peacefully.
Ruth 2:13 Ruth {Friend} answers, “[I hope I continue to] find favor in your sight, my Adon {Master}. You comfort me—you speak [words of courage to] my heart. I'm your handmaid. Though I'm not [as important as] one of your [real, native] workers.”
1st Samuel 9:21 Saul answers, “I'm [just] a Benjamite, [a kid from] the smallest tribe in Israel. My family is the least [important] of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin {Right-Hand-Son}. So why do you speak [so highly] of me?”
1st Samuel 27:5 Meanwhile David {Love} says to [Philistine king] Achish, “If I've now found grace in your eyes, let [your people sell] me a place in some [Palestinian] country-town, so I can live there. [I'm not important.] Why should [I,] your servant, live in the royal city with you, [the king]?”
note: Said with extreme humility, but motivated by the need to avoid power struggles. Anything with 2 heads is a monster.
Job 42:3 [You asked,] ‘Who is this [worm who] obscures [my] wisdom with his ignorance?’ I spoke [about] things I didn't understand, wonders [of the supernatural realm] far beyond my comprehension.
Psalms 9:20 YHVH, strike [evil mankind] with terror. Let the beast-nationals know that they're nothing but [mortal] men. Selah {Dramatic-Break}.
Psalms 116:6 YHVH preserves [all] open, [sincere, childlike hearts, 😇]. [The world] presses me down. But [YAH] lifts me [into wide-open safe-havens of freedom].
Psalms 138:6 YHVH [towers] high, 😇. He eyes arrogant [beings] from far away. Yet he respects [us] lowly [penitents].
Proverbs 3:34 [In the end, 😇,] YAH always scorns scorners, while he gives grace to downtrodden humble [people].
Proverbs 12:9 [😇, you're] better off anonymous with a helper, than self-promoted and starving.
Proverbs 15:33 Awe of YHVH teaches [you] wisdom, 😇. Humility precedes honor.
Proverbs 18:12 [A] man's heart grows haughty. Then destruction [smashes him to bits], 😇. Humility precedes honor.
note: Humility comes before Happily-Ever-After.
Proverbs 27:24 Riches don't last forever, 😇. Nor does [a mortal] crown endure to every generation.
Matthew 11:25 Just then YahShua says, “I thank you Father [YHVH], Adonai of heaven and earth. You hide these truths from sophisticated and ‘educated’ [braggarts]. You [only] reveal [your] treasures to childlike [people].
Matthew 21:5 ‘Say to [mount] Zion's daughter-population, ‘Look! Your King comes to you in humility. [He shuns opulence and power.] He rides on a donkey, a [wild] colt, the offspring of a [lowly] beast of burden!’”
note: Zechariah 9:9
Luke 23:40 But the [penitent] criminal [on YahShua's other side] rebukes that [rude] criminal by groaning, “You're under the same death sentence! Don't you fear [YHVH] the Eloah?
Luke 23:41 [Judges] justly condemned us. We're getting the due reward for our [death-penalty] crimes. But this man [YahShua] never did anything wrong!”
John 13:12 YahShua finishes washing his disciples’ feet, 😇. [He] puts back on his cloak. Then [he] sits back down [at the table]. [He] asks, “Do you realize what I've done for you?
2nd Corinthians 10:18 Because, 😇, it's not the one who recommends himself who is worthy of approval, but the one whom [YHVH] the Adonai recommends.
Philippians 2:5 😇, your attitude should be the same as that of YahShua, [YAH's] Messiah.
Philippians 2:7 YahShua made himself nothing, 😇. He took on the very nature of a servant. He appeared [on earth] in human form.
James 4:6 But [if we get humble, 😇,] YAH eventually gives us the unmerited gift [of strength to stand against the ruinous desire to shack up with the world]. As [YAH] spoke [through Solomon], “YHVH resists proud [beings], while [he] gives unmerited-favor to humble [beings].”
note: Proverbs 3:33-34
1st Peter 1:17 You, 😇, call on YAH the Father. [He] judges without favoritism. [He] justly repays every man's deeds. [So] pass the time of your sojourning here on earth in trembling respect and reverence, 😇.
note: Live shaken to the core by the terrifying possibility that YAH could easily and rightly eternally destroy you in unquenchable fire, because though you once prayed a ‘prayer of salvation,’ you still keep on sinning by conscious choice, rejecting the Holy Spirit's power.
1st Peter 5:6 So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of [YHVH] the Eloah. Then, in due time, He exalts you.
Baruch 1:5 [Hearing the scripture,] the [repentant Hebrews] weep. They fast. they pray before Adonai [YHVH].
Genesis 18:27 Abraham {Father-Of-Billions} answers, “Look—I boldly speak to YHVH, [though I] am mere dust and ashes:
Genesis 23:7 Abraham {Father-Of-Billions} stands up, 😇. He bows himself to these common [low, pagan] people [of the land], the Sons-of-Terror.
note: Abraham, a wealthy king, bows before criminal pagan commoners who are about to rip him off. Such humility is the mark of a true Hebrew.
Exodus 12:15 For 7 days you, 😇, [must] eat unleavened bread. Starting on the 1st day [of passover], you must remove all fermented bread from your buildings. Whoever eats leavened bread from the 1st day until the 7th day [of Passover], that soul gets cut off [alienated] from Israel.
note: Flat bread symbolizes humility.
Exodus 12:18 In the 1st month [of Spring, starting] on the 14th day of the month, you, 😇, must eat unleavened [flat] bread at evening. [Then continue doing so each night] until the 21st day of the month at evening.
Exodus 12:19 During the seven days [of Passover], no leaven is to be found in your dwellings. Whoever eats food with yeast in it gets cut off from the community of Isra’el — it doesn’t matter whether he is a foreigner or a native born in [Israel's] land.
note: Flat bread is a visual picture of humility, and also a reminder of the haste in which the Hebrews fled Egypt.
Exodus 12:39 In Sukkot {Hut-Town} the [Israelites] bake unfermented cakes from the dough they brought from Egypt. The dough remains un-leavened, 😇, because the [Israelites] got thrust out of Egypt. So they couldn't stay long enough to prepare provisions for themselves.
Numbers (Journeys) 14:5 So Moses and Aaron fall on their faces before all the assembled community of [Elders who represent] the [2 million] people of Israel.
Judges 6:15 Gideon {Chopper} asks [YAH's angel], “Oh my Adonai, [how could] I save Israel? Look: my family is [among the] poorest [people] in [the tribe of] Manasseh. And I'm the least [important man] in my father's house.”
1st Samuel 25:25 —My lord, please ignore this [worthless] man of Belial {The-Devil} Nabal. He's just like his name indicates. Nabal {Fool} is his name. Folly [lives in] him. But I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men you sent [to ask for food], my lord.
1st Samuel 25:41 [Abigail] gets up. She bows herself on her face to the earth. She says, “[Yes.] Allow me, your handmaid, to be [your] servant. I'll wash the feet of the servants of my lord [David].”
note: A wise woman realizes that taking a husband is putting herself in a subordinate position. Men dominate women. That's just a fact, right or wrong. A man who fails to lead is a wimp. That doesn't mean the man has to be a jerk.
2nd Samuel 1:2 The 3rd day, a man runs from Saul's camp [to David's camp]. [Sweat runs off the straggler's] dirty head [down into his eyes]. His shredded clothes [flail from his lacerated body]. He staggers to David. He falls to the earth. He prostrates his [body before David].
2nd Samuel 24:20 Araunah {Strong} looks [out his window]. He sees king [David] and [David's royal] workers [galloping] up toward him. So Araunah [runs] outside. He bows himself on his face on the ground before the king.
1st Kings 1:23 King [David's advisers shout to him,] “Behold Nathan {Gift} the prophet!” [Nathan] approaches the king. He bows his body down to the king. [Nathan's] face touches the [marble] floor.
note: Nathan and Bath-Sheba bow in humility; so they win. AdoniJah rises in arrogance, so he loses.
1st Kings 3:7 So now, YHVH my Elohim, you've made [me] (your servant) king in place of my father [king] David. I'm just a little child. I don't know how to [direct my citizens,] coming nor going.
2nd Kings 1:14 —[I] saw fire shoot down from heaven. It burnt up the [earlier] two captains with their 50 soldiers each. So please see my life as precious. [Spare me.]”
1st Chronicles 17:17 —[All my victories] so far amount to a tiny [speck] in your eyes, Elohim. Yet you've promised [to bless] your servant's house for ages to come! You (YHVH Elohim) promoted me to the station of a high-class [king]!
2nd Chronicles 34:27 ‘YHVH Elohim of Israel says: “Concerning the doom-prophecy you just heard: your heart has become tender. You humbled yourself before Elohim when you heard [Moses'] prophecies against this place, and against its inhabitants. You bent your knee before me. You ripped your [royal] clothes. You wept before me. So I've heard your [cry],” says YHVH.
Job 9:15 Even if I were righteous, I still wouldn't [dare to] answer [YAH]. I would only beg my judge [for mercy].
Job 39:9 Will wild buffalo consent to serve you, 😇? Will [he] stay by your barn-stall? [No.]
note: Buffalo are very difficult to manage. The fencing costs are prohibitive.
Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like [my heavenly] El-powers, 😇? Can you thunder with a voice like [my destroying angels]?
Psalms 30:7 YHVH, your approval makes me stand strong as a mountain. But when you hide your face, I shatter [like a vase].
Psalms 149:4 For YHVH takes pleasure in his people, 😇. He shines [through us] humble [repenters]. He [lifts us up into cliff-top fortresses surrounded by] wide-open [plains of safety].
Proverbs 20:9 😇, who can say, “I've cleaned-up my heart. I'm pure from my sin?”
Proverbs 25:6 😇, avoid putting yourself forward in a ruler's presence. Don't stick [yourself] in the place of big-shots.
Proverbs 25:7 😇, it's better if [rulers] say to you, “Come up here.” [Don't risk] being demoted [from your usurped position] in the presence of nobles.
JeremiYAH 27:12 I told these exact commands to Judea's [evil exiled] king ZedekYah {YAH's-Right}. I said, ‘Bring your necks under the yoke of the Babylonian Emperor. Serve him and his people. Then [you'll] live.
Matthew 6:17 But you, 😇, when you fast, put oil on [your hair &] head. Wash your face.
note: Anoint your head / Put [olive] oil on your head. Shampoo & comb your hair. Brush your teeth.
Matthew 11:8 What did you travel out to see? A [coward] clothed in soft apparel? Look, 😇! [Pansies] who wear plush attire [lounge around] in kings’ palaces. [Real men hike the desert. Real leaders work in slums.]
note: Politically-astute lying T.V. preachers counsel Presidents of worldly nations. Charlatans fill stadiums of cheering crowds. Fakers sleep on silk sheets in 5-star hotels. YAH's real people are often scraggly, smelly, bug-eaten roughnecks sleeping in nasty holes.
Matthew 20:16 So, 😇, [at the final judgment, some] last-place [‘losers’ finish] first. And [some] first-place [‘winners’ place dead last]. For [YAH] calls many [beings]. But [he] chooses few [of them].”
note: Many Jews (who have been guarding the Torah for Millennia) will stand in the back of the line watching Christians (who as a group have been messing up the world during their short historical career) enter heaven's gates first. Angels dump 'super-religious' hordes into the eternal fire while Christ dances repentant sinners through the pearly gates!
Mark 1:9 Soon YahShua travels from Nazareth ([to meet JAHn] in Galilee). JAHn baptizes YahShua in the Jordan river.
Mark 9:36 YahShua finds a child. He stands the child in the middle of the [group of] disciples. YahShua wraps his arms around the child. He says to the disciples:
Luke 1:48 For YAH remembers me, his lowly servant girl. — Imagine, 😇! — From now on, all generations call me ‘blessed!’
Luke 9:47 YahShua, reading [his] disciples' [infantile] minds and hearts, takes a little child. He stands the child beside him.
John 13:4 YahShua rises from supper, 😇. [He] lays aside his [outer] clothing. Then [he] wraps a towel [like a servant's apron] around his waist.
2nd Corinthians 3:5 Not that we're competent in ourselves to count anything as having come from us, 😇. On the contrary, our competence comes from [YHVH] the Eloah.
2nd Corinthians 10:17 So, 😇, “Anyone who boasts should boast about what YHVH [Adonai] does.”
note: (Jeremiah 9:24)
Galatians 5:26 Let's never desire vain glory. [Never] provoke one another. [Never] envy one another, 😇.
note: Never compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.
James 1:9 Brothers who [wallow] in humble circumstances should be glad, 😇. For [YAH thus] honors them.
note: Suffering in humility makes you spiritually better.
2nd Peter 2:11 Angels are greater in power and might than [disobedient] men, 😇. Yet angels are too humble to bring railing accusation against [heavenly beings] before [YHVH] the Adonai.
note: This may also mean that angels are too humble to even accuse men.
Genesis 18:3 Abraham {Father-Of-Billions} exclaims, “My Adonai, if I've finally found favor in your sight, I beg you, don't pass away from [me,] your servant.
Genesis 23:12 [Again] Abraham {Father-Of-Billions} bows his body down before these [common, criminal] people of terror-land, 😇.
Exodus 33:6 So, 😇, [there] by Mount Hor {Looming-Peak}eb, the descendants of Israel strip themselves of their jewelry.
2nd Samuel 7:6 —[Remember,] since the time I brought up the ‘sons of Israel’ out of Egypt, to this very day, I haven't ‘dwelt’ in any house. Rather I've ‘walked’ [the earth with] a tent as [my] ‘dwelling.’
2nd Samuel 7:18 Then king David [runs from his palace, down the street,] into [the holy tent]. He sits [in the dust]. [He lifts his] face to YHVH [in heaven]. [He cries,] “Who am I, O Adonai YHVH? What is my family? [We never earned the right to have] you raise me to [royalty]!
2nd Samuel 16:4 So king [David] says to Ziba {Station}, “[The vast estate I awarded] to [the back-stabber] Mephibosheth now belongs to you.” So Ziba replies, “I bow down to you, [hoping] I'll find grace in your sight, my lord, O king.”
note: Stressed-out king David makes the emotionally-motivated mistake of trusting the testimony of a single, self-interested witness.
1st Kings 1:31 So Bath-Sheba {Oath-Daughter} bows her face to the earth. She prostrates herself before the king. [She] says, “Let my lord king David live forever.”
Job 9:16 [Even] if I call, and [YAH] answers me, I still won't believe he listens to my bleating.
Job 32:6 So EliHu answers, “I'm young. You're very old. That's why I was afraid. I didn't dare show you my opinion.
note: lit named as in v.2: the son of Barachel (descendant of [Shamed] Buz)
Job 39:12 Can you, 😇, train [a buffalo] to bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?
Job 41:1 [YAH continues,] “Can you, 😇, fish out [a giant] sea-beast with a hook? Can you drop down a cord and rope its jaw?
note: “Beast of the sea” is symbolic. Sea = the untamable population of the world-system. Leviathan = the dragon-god (satan) who controls the ‘sea of people’ with legal agreements (oaths): #3882 livyathan liv-yaw-thawn' (from 3867); leviathan, a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially a large sea- monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also Babylon, symbolic of mourning. #3867 lava = to twine, i.e. to unite, to remain; also to borrow (enter obligation) or to lend. Thus, YHVH is pointing out both mankind's inability to control sea-beasts, as well as man's utter inability to fight the devil and his hordes.
Psalms 22:24 YAH has never despised nor ignored the affliction of humble [people]. He never hides His face [from you, 😇]. [Poor Hebrews] cry, [and] YAH listens. [He responds with action.]
Psalms 131:1 YHVH, my heart avoids [seeking] status. I don't [have my] eye [on being a] big [shot]. I'm not chasing the big-time. [I leave society's] high [honors to others].
note: [A song of ascents. By David:] Peterson: “YHVH, I'm not trying to rule the roost. I don't want to be king of the mountain. I don't meddle where I have no business. I don't fantasize grandiose plans.”
Proverbs 13:10 Pride only breeds fights, 😇. Insight [lives] with [people] who [gracefully] take advice.
Proverbs 16:1 Mortals make plans [in their] hearts, 😇. But YHVH's tongue speaks the [final] answer.
note: Yah decides what's going to happen to you. Life is an adventure. In everything, YAH has the last word.
Lamentations 3:28 [The humble man] sits alone and keeps silence, [enduring the discipline YAH] lays on him, 😇.
Daniel 2:30 Now [YHVH] explained the mystery to me, but not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive. [YHVH just] wants you to know what your dream means, Emperor. [YAH] wants you to understand what went through your mind:
ZephaniYAH 3:12 [YHVH] preserves [and brings front and] center the afflicted flock of poor, thin, weak people who dangle by threads, who flee for protection [in the] name/character/authority [of] YHVH.
Matthew 3:13 [Eventually] YahShua [hikes many miles south] from the Heathen Circle [Galilee] to the Jordan River. [He walks up] to JAHn, intending to get baptized.
Matthew 3:15 YahShua answers JAHn, “Just for now, let me [appear to be below you in authority]. Let's do everything righteousness requires.” So JAHn consents to baptize YahShua.
John 12:14 YahShua finds an [un-tame] young donkey. He [supernaturally calms the kicking, dangerous animal. He] sits on it, just as the [Zechariah 9:9] Scripture predicts, 😇:
Acts 10:26 But Peter {Rock} lifts up the Centurion, saying, “Stand up. I'm only a man myself.”
1st Corinthians 1:31 As [the Prophet Jeremiah] writes, “Anyone who brags should boast about YHVH.”
note: Jeremiah 9:24 'If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for YHVH.'
1st Corinthians 4:4 I'm not aware of anything against me, 😇. But [my clean conscience] doesn't make me innocent. The one who judges me is the Adonai [YHVH].
note: We are all righteous in our own eyes. But Judgment Day reveals who we really are. Wisdom is to have the bravery to see ourselves accurately.
2nd Corinthians 12:8 3 times, 😇, I begged the Adonai [YHVH] to take this ‘thorn in the flesh’ away from me.
Genesis 43:28 [Joseph's brothers] answer, “[Yes,] your servant (our father) is in good health. He's still alive.” Again, the [brothers] bow down their heads to show respect [for Joseph].
Exodus 12:20 Eat nothing with yeast in it [during Passover]. Wherever you live, eat [flat bread] matzah.’”
Leviticus 23:29 Anybody who doesn't humble himself on Yom-Kippur day eventually [gets] cut off from his people [by death, disease or banishment].
2nd Samuel 1:3 David asks the man in rags, “Where did you come from?” The man answers, “I escaped from the Israeli war-camp.”
2nd Samuel 14:12 Then the [actress] adds, “Please, allow [me,] your handmaid, to speak one [more] word to [you,] my lord [and] king.” [David] replies, “Go on.”
2nd Samuel 15:26 But if [YAH] says, ‘I'm displeased with you, [David,]’ then look, here I am. Let [YAH] do to me [whatever] seems good to Him.”
1st Kings 1:16 So Bath-Sheba {Oath-Daughter} bows. She kneels [before] the king. The king [croaks], “What do you want?”
1st Kings 20:4 [Northern] Israel's [evil] king [Ahab] answers, “My lord, O emperor, just as you say, I and everything I have are yours.”
2nd Kings 1:8 The messengers answer their king, “[The prophet] man [wore] furry [clothes] wrapped with a leather garment around his waist.” The king replies, “It was EliJah {JAH-Is-El} the Traveler.”
note: Or, “a hairy man.”
1st Chronicles 17:16 So king David [runs] into [Jerusalem's sanctuary-tent]. He sits [on the ground. He lifts his] face [up to] YHVH [in heaven]. He prays, “Who am I, YHVH Elohim? What is my family? We didn't do anything to deserve the [heights] you've brought me up to!
2nd Chronicles 30:11 Yet some [people from the tribes of] of Asher and Manasseh {Sweet-Forgetting} and Zebulun {House} humble themselves. They travel [many miles] to Jerusalem.
Ezra 8:21 There at the Ahava river I [Ezra] immediately proclaim a fast, to give us [Hebrews] an opportunity to humble ourselves before [YHVH] our Elohim, to seek his correct path for our [lives], for our little ones, and [to show us what to do with] all our possessions.
Job 5:11 [YAH] sets lowly people up on high. [YAH] exalts mourners to safety.
Job 9:14 So I can never answer [YAH]. I can't even choose words to reason with him.
Job 15:14 What [claim] does [any] man have to be clean? What [human] born of a woman [can prove] he's righteous?
Job 35:5 Look to the heavens, [Job]. See [how small you are]. Watch. [Mere] clouds [float] higher than you.
Job 35:7 If you perform righteous [deeds, don't imagine] you're giving [YAH] a gift. He receives [nothing] from your hand.
Job 37:21 Men can't [even] look at blinding [sun] light when the winds pass to clean all clouds [from the sky].
Job 39:10 😇, can you hitch your plow to a buffalo? Will he plow the valleys for you?
Job 40:4 [Job] says, “Look: I'm ashamed. How can I answer you? I [can only] lay my hand over my mouth.
Job 40:10 Deck yourself now with celestial majesty, 😇. Array yourself with glorious splendor.
Job 40:11 [I challenge you to] hurl your exploding fire-rage across [the universe], 😇. Look down all [the] proud [beings in heaven and earth]. Abase them, [if you can].
Psalms 16:2 I admit, “YHVH, precious Adonai, my goodness doesn't [begin to] reach [anywhere close] to yours.
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart devises his way. But YHVH directs his steps, 😇.
Proverbs 16:33 [You toss] your [dice] into your lap, 😇. But YHVH [decides] the verdict.
JeremiYAH 26:14 —Look, I'm [caught] in your grip. Do with me what you see as good and fair.
Amos 7:14 [So the true prophet] Amos answers AmaziYah [the paid-liar-preacher], “I began as neither a prophet, nor a prophet's son. Rather, I was a herdsman, and a gatherer & ripener of sycamore-fig fruit.
Matthew 3:14 But JAHn forbids YahShua, saying, “You're coming to me? I ought to be baptized by you!”
Matthew 11:26 Yes, Father, you see pleasure [in bypassing know-it-all prigs. You take the truth to humble children.]
Mark 11:7 The 2 disciples bring the [wild bucking donkey] colt to YahShua. The disciples throw their cloaks on its [back]. YahShua mounts it. [The crazy animal immediately quiets, 😇!]
note: A wild donkey bucks and kicks hard enough to easily kill a large man.
Mark 11:11 YahShua enters Jerusalem. He rides [his wild donkey] into the temple. [Everyone stares, waiting for him to declare Himself King and assume military rule. Instead,] he [just] looks around at everything. Evening falls. So YahShua, [to the surprise of everyone, hikes] back out to Bethany {Date-House}. [YahShua's] 12 [confused and disappointed] disciples [and the donkey straggle in his tracks].
note: Yahshua throws a totally unexpected anti-climax at the disciples and the whole city. The 12 apostles say, “Jesus, you just came into the city as triumphant King, backed by the full political support of the masses. Seize civil & religious rule! Expel the Romans! Why are you hiking back out to the country to snooze? What's up?! Are you nuts?”
Luke 1:43 —Why am I so favored, that the mother of the Master, my Sovereign, should come to me?
Luke 7:36 One of the [judgmental religious prig] Pharisees asks YahShua to eat with him, 😇. So YahShua [walks] into the Pharisee's house and sits down to eat.
John 1:20 JAHn [the Immerser] flatly denies the [grandiose] rumors circling about him. He honestly admits, “I'm not the Messiah.”
note: Truly testifying.
John 1:21 So, 😇, the priests & Levites ask JAHn, “What then? Are you [the ancient prophet] EliYah?” JAHn replies, “I am not.” [They ask,] “Are you [some other reincarnated] prophet?” Yohannon answers, “No.”
note: The general population rumored that John might be some ancient prophet.
John 12:15 ‘Never fear, daughter of Zion! Look! Your King comes, riding a donkey's [wild, untamed] colt.’
John 13:6 YahShua brings [his water bowl] to Simon Petros [Rock]. Rock protests to YahShua, “Adoni, you're going to wash my feet?”
Acts 10:25 Peter {Rock} enters [assassin Commander Cornelius'] house. Cornelius meets Peter, then falls at his feet in reverence.
note: A true soldier is humble.
Romans 9:21 Doesn't the potter have the right to split (one lump of clay) to make one [set of] pottery for noble purposes and another [set] for common use, 😇?
1st Corinthians 2:3 So I behaved among you as a weak [nobody], nervous, shaking all over in awe [of YAH's power].
note: lit: phobos (fear.)
1st Corinthians 2:16 As [Isaiah writes]: “Who knows the mind of YHVH? No one can instruct YAH.” But we [believers], 😇, have the mind of [the] Messiah.
note: Isaiah 40:13
1st Corinthians 3:5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? [We're] only servants through whom you, 😇, came to believe. [We're workers to whom YHVH] the Adonai delegates specific tasks.
1st Corinthians 3:21 So no one [can] boast about human beings, 😇. Everything belongs to your [Father in heaven].
note: You believers are YHVH's heirs. So (in a sense) everything already belongs to you. So comparing one man's riches to another's makes no sense.
2nd Corinthians 12:1 [Unlike those money-grubbing religionite celebrities,] I'm not going to brag, 😇. Bragging is useless. Instead, let me tell you about visions and revelations [which] Adonai [YHVH inspires in real believers]:
2nd Corinthians 12:5 I celebrate those [supernatural miracles which other believers experience, 😇]. But about myself, I don't brag. I [talk] about [my] humiliations, [my weaknesses].
2nd Corinthians 12:6 If I did want to boast, 😇, it wouldn't be ridiculous. I'd be speaking the truth. But I keep quiet [about the miracles YAH does through me, so that nobody tries to make me a celebrity]. That way, you have to judge me by what you see me do and what you hear me say.
1st Thessalonians 2:6 We apostles of the Messiah could assert our authority. Yet we never seek glory from men. Not from you, 😇, nor from anyone else.
Hebrews 2:6 [In Psalm 8:4-6, David] asks: “[YAH,] what is [mere mortal] man? Why do you concern yourself with him? Why should You watch with such care over [us] human brats?
note: the son of man = huios anthropos. No definite article: ho/the/ha) in this phrase. Neither in Ps. 8:4's Hebrew nor in this verse's Greek.
Hebrews 3:15 [Moses & YahShua] are still speaking these words for us to hear, 😇: “Today, if you hear YAH’s voice, don’t harden your hearts, as you[r ancestors] did [back] in the Bitter Quarrel.”
note: (Psalm 95:7,8)
Hebrews 4:7 YHVH keeps renewing [our] promise [of eternal rest, 😇]. He [always] sets the date [of your redemption] as “today.” [For instance,] centuries after [YAH] originally invited the Israelites [to the promised land] he [inspired king David to write you a psalm inviting you to heaven]: “Today, [please] listen to YAH's voice. Don't harden your hearts!”
note: (Psalm 95:7,8)
Joshua 9:25 So now we're in your grip. Do to us whatever you see as good and right.”
1st Chronicles 17:25 [I,] your servant, only found [the courage] in [my] heart to pray this to your face, because you, my Elohim, told [me,] your servant, that you'll build me [a dynasty].
Job 32:4 Elihu, the youngest [man] present, sits waiting until Job [finishes] speaking.
Matthew 9:10 Later, 😇, as YahShua sits at dinner in [Matthew's] house, many tax-collectors and sinners stream [in]. They sit down with YahShua and his disciples.
note: Perhaps Matthew's house.
1st Corinthians 1:15 No one can say that you were baptized into my name-Authority, 😇.
2nd Corinthians 11:30 If I have to ‘brag’ about myself [to compete with your paid liar preachers, 😇,] I brag about the humiliations that make me [weak, collapsed in the arms of YahShua].
Philemon 1:9 Still, for love's sake, I have a “request” for you, [Philemon]. Not a “command” as an apostle. Just a favor for this old man Paul, a prisoner for [broadcasting the fact that] YahShua, [YAH's] Messiah, [is the king of the universe].
note: This letter highlights the fallacy of the American Civil War. Paul the apostle ASKS his friend to free the (likely runaway) slave. By contrast, the evil northern aggressor army borrowed the United States into permanent bankruptcy on the pretense of FORCING their southern brothers to free the African-American slaves. And now, 170 years later, the African-Americans are just as enslaved as ever.
Job 9:21 Even if I [acknowledge that I'm relatively] blameless, I still despise myself.
Job 37:20 [Do you think I'm dumb enough] to demand that [YAH hear] me speak? If a man barks at YAH, YAH swallows him up!
2nd Corinthians 10:1 The Messiah is gentle and free of pride. That's the Spirit in which I'm writing you. I'm the one you [new believers] call “shy humble Paul” when I'm face-to-face with you. But [when I'm] far away writing letters to you, you call me “bold and intimidating.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 2:17 Everyone who fears YHVH will prepare their hearts, and humble their souls in his sight,
Job 40:3 Then, [lips trembling,] Job answers YHVH.
John 1:19 [… About 30 years pass, 😇.] The Jews send priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask JAHn [the Immerser], “Who are you?”
2nd Corinthians 11:16 Again, don't think me a fool, 😇. But even if you do, share my ‘foolish’ rejoicing:
Job 42:1 Finally Job answers YHVH:
Prayer of AzariYAH 1:65 O you separated humans of humble heart, kneel to the Adonai: praise and exalt him above all forever.
1st Corinthians 1:14 I'm thankful I didn't baptize any of you [Corinthians] except Crispus {Crisp} and Gaius {Rejoicer}.
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 20:11 There is an abasement because of glory; and there is that lifts up his head from a low estate.
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 32:1 If you be made the master [of a feast,] lift not yourself up, but be among them as one of the rest; take diligent care for them, and so sit down.

13 SONGS on the theme of Humility

14 CHAPTERS on the theme of Humility

3 ARTWORKS on the theme of Humility

7 REVIEWS OF MEDIA on the theme of Humility

Bob Hope: Laughing With The Presidents

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