Ezekiel 21:26
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This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.
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Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.