Isaiah 2:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

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  • Isa 5:15 : 15 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
  • Ps 49:2 : 2 High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
  • Josh 24:19 : 19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
  • Neh 4:5 : 5 Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
  • Isa 57:9 : 9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God. 5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
  • Jer 18:23 : 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.
  • Mark 3:29 : 29 But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
  • Col 2:23 : 23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains; 16 And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?

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    15 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:

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    10 Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.

    11 The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

    12 For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

  • Isa 2:17
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    17 And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23 A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

  • Ps 10:10-13
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    10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

    11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

    12 Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.

    13 Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

  • Matt 23:12
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    12 And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

  • Jas 4:10
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    10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

  • Ps 147:6
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    6 The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.

  • Job 40:11-13
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    11 His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.

    12 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

    13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

  • Luke 14:11
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    11 For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

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    6 Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?

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    50 Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;

  • Jer 18:23
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    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10 This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

  • Prov 3:34
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    34 He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.

  • Job 17:4
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    4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

  • Hab 1:11
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    11 Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.

  • Job 9:13
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    13 God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

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    12 Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

  • Mark 11:26
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  • Job 22:29
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    29 For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

  • Job 34:19
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    19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

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    6 For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

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    46 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;

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    9 But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

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    16 Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

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    15 But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.

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    6 Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

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    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

    17 And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

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    17 For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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    5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

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    36 If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them, and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away prisoners to a land far off or near;

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    9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

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    6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

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    5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

  • Rom 11:10
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    10 Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6 Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:

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    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

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    14 I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

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    2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.