Ezekiel 7:10

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.