12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
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For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The prophet here goes on to show what a desolation would be brought upon their land when God should have forsaken them. This may refer particularly to their destruction by the Chaldeans first, and afterwards by the Romans, or it may have a general respect to the method God takes to awaken and humble proud sinners, and to put them out of conceit with that which they delighted in and depended on mor…
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