Isaiah 2:9

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low: therefore forgive them not.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou acceptest them not.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 2:9 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 24:19But 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.
  2. Nehemiah 4:5Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
  3. Psalms 49:2both low and high, rich and poor alike.
  4. Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
  5. Isaiah 5:15So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.
  6. Isaiah 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
  7. Isaiah 27:11When 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.
  8. Isaiah 57:9You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.
  9. Jeremiah 5:4Then 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.
  10. Jeremiah 18:23But 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.
  11. Mark 3:29But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin.”
  12. Romans 3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
  13. Colossians 2:18Do 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.
  14. Colossians 2:23Such 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.
  15. Revelation 6:15Then 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.

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