Isaiah 2:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י י֞וֹם לַיהוָ֧ה צְבָא֛וֹת עַ֥ל כָּל־גֵּאֶ֖ה וָרָ֑ם וְעַ֖ל כָּל־נִשָּׂ֥א וְשָׁפֵֽל׃

Transliteration

For yôm belongs-to-YHWH ṣəbāʾôt against all-gēʾê and-rām, and-against all-niśśāʾ and-šāpēl.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular - day
• *la-YHWH*: preposition + proper noun - belonging to/for the LORD
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural - hosts/armies
• *ʿal*: preposition - against/upon
• *kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of/every
• *gēʾê*: adjective, masculine singular - proud/arrogant
• *wā-rām*: conjunction + adjective, masculine singular - and lofty/high
• *wə-ʿal*: conjunction + preposition - and against/upon
• *niśśāʾ*: verb, niphal participle, masculine singular - lifted up/exalted
• *wə-šāpēl*: conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and will be brought low

Word Meanings

• *yôm la-YHWH*: day of the LORD/day belonging to YHWH
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: hosts/armies/multitudes
• *gēʾê*: proud/arrogant/haughty
• *rām*: lofty/high/exalted
• *niśśāʾ*: lifted up/exalted/elevated
• *šāpēl*: brought low/humbled/abased

Referenced Verses

• Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Mal 4:5 : 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.
• Matt 23:12 : 12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.
• Luke 14:11 : 11 For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
• 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
• Jas 4:6 : 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
• Job 40:11-12 : 11 Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him. 12 Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.
• Prov 6:16-17 : 16 There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
• Prov 16:5 : 5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah: [Though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
• Isa 13:6 : 6 Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
• Isa 13:9 : 9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
• Isa 23:9 : 9 Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
• Isa 24:4 : 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
• Isa 24:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
• Jer 46:10 : 10 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
• Ezek 13:5 : 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.
• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Dan 5:20-24 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts', and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will. 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this, 23 but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified. 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
• Amos 5:18 : 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.