Isaiah 2:9
Therefore shall the mean man be bowed down, And the great man be brought low; And thou wilt not forgive them!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 62:9Truly men of low degree are vanity, And men of high degree are a lie; Placed in the balance, They are all lighter than vanity.
Isaiah 5:16Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted through judgment; Yea, God, the Holy One, shall be sanctified through righteousness.
Isaiah 57:9Thou goest to the king with oil, And takest much precious perfume; Thou sendest thine ambassadors afar, Yea, down to the under-world.
Jeremiah 18:23Thou, O Jehovah, knowest all their plots against my life! Cover not their iniquity, And blot not out their sin from thy sight! But let them be overthrown before thee; Deal with them in the time of thy wrath!
Romans 3:23For all have sinned, and fail of obtaining the glory which cometh from God;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:7-10
A Charge against the Israelites. ( b. c. 758.) 6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own… Read the whole commentary →