He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
The proud — Or haughty, υπερηφανους; from υπερ above, and φαινω I show - the haughty men, who wish to be noticed in preference to all others, and feel sovereign contempt for all but themselves. These God scatters abroad-instead of being in his sight, as in their own, the most excellent of the earth, he treats them as straw, stubble, chaff, and dust.