Isaiah 2:9
And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low; therefore forgive them not.
Revised Version 1895
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 4:5and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: in the balances they will go up; they are together lighter than vanity.
Isaiah 5:16but the LORD of hosts is exalted in judgment, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah 57:9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
Jeremiah 18:23Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight: but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine 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 →