Isaiah 2:9

So now they will be humbled and they will be caused to become disgraced— Yahweh, do not forgive them!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

In Context

8But the land is also full of idols; the people worship things that they have made with their own hands.

10All you people should crawl into the caves in the rock cliffs! You should hide in pits/holes in the ground because of being afraid of Yahweh and of his glorious and awesome power.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 4:5They are guilty; they have said things that caused you to be angry while the people here who are building the wall are listening; so punish them!”

Psalms 62:9People who are considered to be unimportant are as worthless/unreliable as a breath of air; people who are considered to be important also really ◄amount to nothing/cannot be trusted to help us►. If you put them all on a scale, it would be as if they weighed less than a puff of air.

Isaiah 5:16But the Commander of the armies of angels will be exalted/praised because of his acting justly. God will show that he is holy by doing righteous/just deeds.

Isaiah 57:9You have given fragrant oil and lots of perfume to your god Molech, and you sent messengers to distant countries to find other gods to worship; you even tried to send messengers to the place of the dead to search for new gods.

Jeremiah 18:23Yahweh, you know all the things that they are planning to do to kill me. Do not forgive them for their crimes or blot out the record of their sins. Cause them to be destroyed; punish them because of your being angry with them!”

Romans 3:23All people have done evil, and all people have failed to accomplish the glorious goals that God set for them.

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 →

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