Isaiah 5:15
And the low is bowed down, and the high humbled, || And the eyes of the haughty become low,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
16And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, || And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,
Cross References
Exodus 9:17still you are exalting yourself against My people—so as not to send them away;
Psalms 62:9Surely vanity the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up || They [are] lighter than a breath.
Isaiah 2:11The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, || And the loftiness of men has been bowed down, || And YHWH alone has been set on high in that day.
Isaiah 2:17And the haughtiness of man has been bowed down, || And the loftiness of men humbled, || And YHWH alone has been set on high in that day.
Isaiah 10:12And it has come to pass, || When the Lord fulfills all His work || In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, || I see concerning the fruit of the greatness || Of the heart of the king of Asshur, || And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.
Isaiah 13:11“And I have appointed evil on the world, || And on the wicked their iniquity, || And have caused the excellence of the proud to cease, || And I make the excellence of the terrible low.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:9-18
Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow… Read the whole commentary →