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Friday, October 11th, 2024
the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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New Living Translation

Proverbs 15:25

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he protects the property of widows.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pride;   Widow;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abasement;   Exaltation-Abasement;   Fatherless;   Orphans;   Promises, Divine;   Widow and Fatherless;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Pride/arrogance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Widows;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Widow;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Widow;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Widow;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Benedictions;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh will tear down the house of the proud,But He will cause the boundary of the widow to stand.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD will tear down the house of the proud, But He will establish the boundary of the widow.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde wyll breake downe the house of the proude: but he shall make fast the borders of the wydowe.
Darby Translation
Jehovah plucketh up the house of the proud; but he establisheth the boundary of the widow.
New King James Version
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud, But He will establish the boundary of the widow.
Literal Translation
Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud, but He will set up the widow's border.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord destroys a proud man's house but protects a widow's property.
World English Bible
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, But he will keep the widow's borders intact.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
King James Version
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE wyl breake downe ye house of ye proude, but he shal make fast ye borders of ye wyddowe.
THE MESSAGE
God smashes the pretensions of the arrogant; he stands with those who have no standing.
Amplified Bible
The LORD will tear down the house of the proud and arrogant (self-righteous), But He will establish and protect the boundaries [of the land] of the [godly] widow.
American Standard Version
Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
Bible in Basic English
The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
New English Translation
The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord destroys the homes of those who are proud, but he protects the property of widows.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai will pull down the houses of the proud, but preserves intact the widow's boundaries.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lorde will destroye the house of the proude men: but hee will stablish the borders of the widowe.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud; but he will insure the possession of widows.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD will uproot the house of the proud, But he will keep the widow's borders intact.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD will pluck up the house of the proud; but He will establish the border of the widow.
New Life Bible
The Lord will tear down the house of the proud, but He will make a place for the woman whose husband has died.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord pulls down the houses of scorners; but he establishes the border of the widow.
English Revised Version
The LORD will root up the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
New Revised Standard
The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The house of proud men, will Yahweh tear down, but he will maintain the boundary of the widow.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.
Lexham English Bible
The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear it down, but he will maintain the property line of the widow.
English Standard Version
The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries.
New American Standard Bible
The LORD will tear down the house of the proud, But He will set the boundary of the widow.
New Century Version
The Lord will tear down the proud person's house, but he will protect the widow's property.
Good News Translation
The Lord will destroy the homes of arrogant men, but he will protect a widow's property.
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord destroys the house of the proud, but He protects the widow's territory.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord schal distrie the hows of proude men; and he schal make stidefast the coostis of a widewe.
Revised Standard Version
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but maintains the widow's boundaries.
Young's Literal Translation
The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

Contextual Overview

25 The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he protects the property of widows.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

destroy: Proverbs 12:7, Proverbs 14:11, Job 40:11-13, Psalms 52:1, Psalms 52:5, Psalms 138:6, Isaiah 2:12, Daniel 5:20, 1 Peter 5:5

but: Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 10:18, Psalms 68:5, Psalms 68:6, Psalms 146:9, James 1:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:24 - concubine Job 40:12 - tread Mark 7:21 - evil

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord will destroy the house of the proud,.... To whom he has the utmost aversion; he sets himself against them and resists them, and will not only destroy them, but their stately houses too, which their have fancied shall continue for ever; and also their families, their children and posterity; these shall be as stubble, and shall be burnt up in his wrath, and neither root nor branch left. Moreover, the man of sin, the son of perdition, may be more especially intended, that exalts himself above all that is called God, with all the sons of pride supported by him; his house, which is the house of the foolish and adulterous woman, the idolatrous church of Rome, shall be rooted up; the city of Rome, the seat of the beast itself, where his house or palace is, shall be destroyed, and all that belong unto him, even all they that have destroyed the earth, Revelation 11:18;

but he will establish the border of the widow; whose advocate, judge, and defender he is; when men, rich, proud, and oppressive, attempt to remove the landmark of the widow's border, and so lessen her land and enlarge their own, God will not suffer it to be done, but will establish it in its place; that is, such who are weak and helpless, as widows are, and cannot defend themselves and their property, he will protect them and secure it for them. So the church of Christ, during the reign of antichrist, being obliged to flee into the wilderness, looks like a widow deprived of her husband, and has but "little strength" to support and defend herself, as is said of the church of Philadelphia, Revelation 3:8; yet the Lord will secure and preserve her, and firmly settle and establish her, yea, enlarge her borders, and make them of pleasant stones; spread the kingdom of Christ from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. Frequent mention is made of the establishing of the church in the latter day, Psalms 48:8 Isaiah 2:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The widow - Here, as elsewhere Deuteronomy 10:18; Psalms 68:5, the widow, as the most extreme type of desolation, stands as the representative of a class safer in their poverty under the protection of the Lord, than the proud in the haughtiness of their strength.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 15:25. The house of the proud — Families of this description are seldom continued long. The Lord hates pride; and those that will not be humble he will destroy.


 
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