Isaiah 2:9
The people will be bowed down, and individuals will fall down; therefore do not raise them up. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
Nehemiah 4:5Do not cover over their iniquity and do not erase their sin from before you, for they have provoked the builders to anger.
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low standing are vanity, and men of high standing are a lie; 1 they will weigh lightly in the scales; 1 weighed together, they are lighter than nothing. 1
Isaiah 5:16Yahweh of hosts will be exalted in his justice, and God the Holy One will show himself holy by his righteousness. 1
Isaiah 57:9You went to Molech with oil; you multiplied perfumes. + 57:9 Instead of to Molech , some versions have to the king . 1 You send your ambassadors far away; you went down to Sheol. 1
Jeremiah 18:23But you, Yahweh, you know all of their plans against me to kill me. 1 Do not forgive their iniquities and sins. Do not wipe their sins away from you. 1 Instead, let them be overthrown before you. Act against them in the time of your wrath.
Romans 3:23For all have sinned and come short of the glory of 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 →