13
For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.
14
The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, and set up the meek in their stead.
15
The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations, and planted the lowly in their place.
16
The Lord overthrew countries of the heathen, and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.
17
He took some of them away, and destroyed them, and hath made their memorial to cease from the earth.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.