Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both w
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Bab
Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leadi
And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his f
His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high p
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chalde
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackclot
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will yo
but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackclo