Isaiah 2:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don’t spare them!

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 5:15 : 15 Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.
  • Ps 49:2 : 2 Pay attention, all you people, both rich and poor!
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
  • Josh 24:19 : 19 Joshua warned the people,“You will not keep worshiping the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
  • Neh 4:5 : 5 Do not cover their iniquity, and do not wipe out their sin from your sight. For they have bitterly offended the builders!
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
  • Isa 57:9 : 9 You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.
  • Jer 5:4-5 : 4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them. 5 I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the LORD demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them.” Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.
  • Jer 18:23 : 23 But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!
  • Mark 3:29 : 29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin”
  • Rom 3:23 : 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.
  • Col 2:23 : 23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They said to the mountains and to the rocks,“Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 5:15
    80%

    15Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

  • Isa 2:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10Go up into the rocky cliffs, hide in the ground. Get away from the dreadful judgment of the LORD, from his royal splendor!

    11Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

    12Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud– they will be humiliated;

  • Isa 2:17
    73%

    17Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

  • Prov 29:23
    72%

    23A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

  • Ps 10:10-13
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    72%

    10His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.

    11He says to himself,“God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices.”

    12Rise up, LORD! O God, strike him down! Do not forget the oppressed!

    13Why does the wicked man reject God? He says to himself,“You will not hold me accountable.”

  • Matt 23:12
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    12And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

  • Jas 4:10
    71%

    10Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

  • Ps 147:6
    71%

    6The LORD lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.

  • Job 40:11-13
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    70%

    11Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

    12Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!

    13Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.

  • Luke 14:11
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    11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

  • Ps 113:6
    70%

    6He bends down to look at the sky and the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 8:50
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    50Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.

  • Jer 18:23
    69%

    23But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

  • Zeph 2:10
    69%

    10This is how they will be repaid for their arrogance, for they taunted and verbally harassed the people of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Prov 3:34
    69%

    34With arrogant scoffers he is scornful, yet he shows favor to the humble.

  • Job 17:4
    69%

    4Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

  • Hab 1:11
    69%

    11They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty.”

  • Job 9:13
    69%

    13God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed.

  • Prov 18:12
    68%

    12Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.

  • Job 22:29
    68%

    29When people are brought low and you say‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;

  • Job 34:19
    68%

    19who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

  • 1 Pet 5:6
    68%

    6And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand

  • 1 Kgs 8:46
    68%

    46“The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry with them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their own land, whether far away or close by.

  • Jas 1:9
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    9Now the believer of humble means should take pride in his high position.

  • Ps 109:16
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    16For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.

  • Matt 6:15
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    15But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

  • Ps 138:6
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    6Though the LORD is exalted, he looks after the lowly, and humbles the proud from far away.

  • Neh 9:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

    17They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

  • Ps 28:4
    68%

    4Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

  • Isa 9:17
    68%

    17So the Lord was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

  • Ps 75:5
    68%

    5Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

  • 2 Chr 6:36
    68%

    36“The time will come when your people will sin against you(for there is no one who is sinless!) and you will be angry at them and deliver them over to their enemies, who will take them as prisoners to their land, whether far away or close by.

  • Ps 62:9
    68%

    9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

  • Jas 4:6
    68%

    6But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

  • Isa 3:5
    68%

    5The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.

  • Rom 11:10
    67%

    10let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

  • Prov 25:6
    67%

    6Do not honor yourself before the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

  • Amos 2:7
    67%

    7They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

  • Luke 18:14
    67%

    14I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

  • Ps 10:2
    67%

    2The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.