Isaiah 2:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, The haughtiness of men will be bowed down, And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵינֵ֞י גַּבְה֤וּת אָדָם֙ שָׁפֵ֔ל וְשַׁ֖ח ר֣וּם אֲנָשִׁ֑ים וְנִשְׂגַּ֧ב יְהוָ֛ה לְבַדּ֖וֹ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃ ס

Transliteration

ʿÊnê gabhût ʾādām šāpēl, and-šaḥ rûm ʾănāšîm, and-niśgab YHWH to-badô in-the-yôm the-hûʾ.

Grammar Details

• *ʿênê*: noun, feminine dual construct - eyes of
• *gabhût*: noun, feminine singular construct - haughtiness/pride of
• *ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular - mankind/humanity
• *šāpēl*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - are humbled/brought low
• *wə-šaḥ*: conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and is bowed down
• *rûm*: noun, masculine singular construct - haughtiness/pride of
• *ʾănāšîm*: noun, masculine plural - men/people
• *wə-niśgab*: conjunction + verb, niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and is exalted
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *lə-badô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - alone/by himself
• *ba-yôm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in the day
• *ha-hûʾ*: definite article + pronoun, masculine singular - that

Word Meanings

• *ʿênê gabhût*: haughty eyes/proud looks
• *šāpēl*: humbled/brought low/abased
• *šaḥ*: bowed down/humbled/brought low
• *rûm*: haughtiness/pride/exaltation
• *niśgab*: exalted/lifted high/elevated
• *badô*: alone/by himself/only
• *yôm ha-hûʾ*: that day/the day/the appointed time

Referenced Verses

• Ps 18:27 : 27 For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down.
• Isa 5:15-16 : 15 So man is brought low, Mankind is humbled, And the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; 16 But Yahweh of Hosts is exalted in justice, And God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
• Isa 12:4 : 4 In that day you will say, "Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
• Isa 24:21 : 21 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
• Jer 30:7-8 : 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. 8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
• Jer 50:31-32 : 31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you. 32 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.
• Isa 13:11 : 11 I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
• Mal 4:1 : 1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Isa 2:17 : 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Mic 4:6 : 6 "In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame, And I will gather that which is driven away, And that which I have afflicted;
• Mic 5:10 : 10 "It will happen in that day," says Yahweh, "That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, And will destroy your chariots.
• Mic 7:11-12 : 11 A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary. 12 In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, And from Egypt even to the River, And from sea to sea, And mountain to mountain.
• Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
• Zeph 3:16 : 16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Don't be afraid, Zion. Don't let your hands be slack."
• Zech 9:16 : 16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; For they are like the jewels of a crown, Lifted on high over his land.
• Isa 4:1 : 1 Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."
• Isa 11:10-11 : 10 It shall happen in that day, that the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious. 11 It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Isa 12:1 : 1 In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
• 1 Cor 1:29-31 : 29 that no flesh should boast before God. 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 31 that, according as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• 2 Cor 10:17 : 17 But "he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
• Job 40:10-12 : 10 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty. 11 Pour forth the fury of your anger. Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low. 12 Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
• Ezek 38:14 : 14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?
• Ezek 38:19 : 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
• Ezek 39:11 : 11 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
• Ezek 39:22 : 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.
• Hos 2:16 : 16 It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "That you will call me 'my husband,' And no longer call me 'my master.'
• Hos 2:18 : 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, And with the birds of the sky, And with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, And will make them lie down safely.
• Hos 2:21 : 21 It will happen in that day, I will respond," says Yahweh, I will respond to the heavens, And they will respond to the earth;
• Joel 3:18 : 18 It will happen in that day, That the mountains will drop down sweet wine, The hills will flow with milk, All the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; And a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, And will water the valley of Shittim.
• Amos 9:11 : 11 In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
• Obad 1:8 : 8 "Won't I in that day," says Yahweh, "destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?
• Isa 25:9 : 9 It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
• Isa 26:1 : 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
• Isa 27:1-2 : 1 In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea. 2 In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you to it.
• Isa 27:12-13 : 12 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel. 13 It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
• Isa 28:5 : 5 In that day will Yahweh of Hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;
• Isa 29:18 : 18 In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
• Isa 30:23 : 23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 52:6 : 6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he who does speak; behold, it is I.
• Jer 9:24 : 24 but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.