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Isaiah 2:9

Isaiah 2:9 is verse 9 of Isaiah chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them!

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.

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Isaiah 2:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.

8 Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

9 So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled— do not forgive them!

10 Go into the rocks and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty.

11 The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 5:15

So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

Psalms 49:2

both low and high, rich and poor alike.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Revelation 6:15

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Revelation 6:16

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Revelation 6:17

For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

Isaiah 57:9

You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

Colossians 2:23

Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Isaiah 27:11

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Joshua 24:19

But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

Jeremiah 18:23

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

Mark 3:29

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin.”

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