Isaiah 2:9
Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.
World English Bible British
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 4:5Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Isaiah 5:16but the LORD of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah 57:9You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
Jeremiah 18:23Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t blot out their sin from your sight, Let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger.
Romans 3:23for all have sinned, and fall 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 →