15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
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The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. …
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-17)The world and the flesh are the two great enemies that we are in danger of being overpowered by; yet we are in no danger if we do not ourselves yield to them. Eagerness of the world, and indulgence of the flesh, are the two sins against which the prophet, in God’s name, here denounces woes. These were sins which then abounded among the men of Judah, some of the wild grapes they brought forth (Isa.…
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