This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“For your sake I will send to Babylon
    and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,
    in the ships in which they took pride.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    Israel’s Creator, your King.”

“Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it’s the complete anti-God state of mind.” C. S. Lewis

One of the best known Bible sentences says that pride goes before a fall. A lot of people will quote it without knowing that it comes from the Scriptures. Actually, it is a paraphrase. Proverbs 16:18 in fact reads:

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. (King James Version).

God’s Word calls repeatedly for a humble posture before Him.

The things in which a person may take pride: for example their wealth, their physical strength, their intellectual prowess, their sporting ability, will fail them eventually. For the Babylonians, in our reading, it was their ”ships”. They had a mighty navy, but they couldn’t fight God.

God’s law of gravity says that ‘what goes down must come up.’

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. (1 Peter 5:6).

 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. (James 5:10).