Isaiah 2:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

Isaiah 2:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:15
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Jeremiah 18:23
Yet, 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 thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Nehemiah 4:5
And 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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-9)

The calling in of the Gentiles was accompanied with the rejection of the Jews; it was their fall, and the diminishing of them, that was the riches of the Gentiles; and the casting off of them was the reconciling of the world (Rom. 11:12-15); and it should seem that these verses have reference to that, and are designed to justify God therein, and yet it is probable that they are primarily intended…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. mean--in rank: not morally base: opposed to “the great man.” The former is in Hebrew, Adam, the latter, ish. boweth--namely, to idols. All ranks were idolaters. forgive ... not--a threat expressed by an imperative. Isaiah so identifies himself with God’s will, that he prays for that which he knows God purposes. So Re 18:6.