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Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.

The arrogant rise against me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life; they have no regard for You.

You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments.

The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.

Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man—of him who acts with excessive pride.

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’

So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”