Isaiah 2:12
For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and haughty, and upon everyone that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
13and upon every cedar of Lebanon, of them that are high and towering, and upon every oak of Bashan,
Cross References
Job 40:11And send forth messengers with wrath; 1 And lay low every haughty one. 1
Psalms 37:13While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: 1 And they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, 1 And devised deceits all the day. 1
Proverbs 6:16For he rejoices in all things which God hates, 1 And he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul. 1
Isaiah 5:15And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.
Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low:
Isaiah 13:9For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:11-22
The Doom of Idolaters. ( b. c. 758.) 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord , and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all… Read the whole commentary →