Pro 8:13, Isa 16:6, Zep 2:8-15 | ESV | STEP | The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil . Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate .

Proverbs 8:13

13 ^aThe fear of the Lord is ^bhatred of evil.
^cPride and arrogance and the way of evil
and ^dperverted speech I hate.

Isaiah 16:6

6 ^eWe have heard of the pride of Moab—
how proud he is!—
^fof his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;
in his idle boasting he is not right.

Zephaniah 2:8-15

8 “I have heard ^gthe taunts of Moab
and ^hthe revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
and made boasts ⁱagainst their territory.
9 Therefore, ^jas I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become ^klike Sodom,
and the Ammonites ^llike Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10 This shall be their lot in return ^mfor their pride,
because they taunted and boasted
against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be awesome against them;
ⁿfor he will famish all the gods of the earth,
and ^oto him shall bow down,
each in its place,
all ^pthe lands of the nations.
12 ^qYou also, O Cushites,
shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
^rand destroy Assyria,
and he ^swill make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
14 ^tHerds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts; ^{▼▼Hebrew beasts of every nation}
^veven the owl and the hedgehog ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain}
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for ^xher cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the exultant city
^ythat lived securely,
that said in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
^za lair for wild beasts!
^aaEveryone who passes by her
hisses and ^abshakes his fist.