Isaiah 2:15-22

15 for every lofty tower and every fortified wall,
16 for every trading ship[a]and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
18 and the idols will totally disappear.
19 People will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from the fearful presence of the LORDand the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
20 In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
21 They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the LORDand the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
22 Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?

Cross References 24

  • 1. Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 32:14; Isaiah 33:18
  • 2. Isaiah 25:2,12; Zephaniah 1:16
  • 3. "fn" S Genesis 10:4; S 1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 10:22
  • 4. S 2 Samuel 22:28; S Job 40:11
  • 5. S ver 9
  • 6. S ver 11
  • 7. S 1 Samuel 5:2; Ezekiel 36:25
  • 8. S Deuteronomy 9:21; Isaiah 21:9; Jeremiah 10:11; Micah 5:13
  • 9. S Judges 6:2; Isaiah 7:19
  • 10. S Judges 6:2; S Job 30:6; Luke 23:30; Revelation 6:15
  • 11. S Deuteronomy 2:25
  • 12. S Psalms 145:12
  • 13. ver 21; S Job 9:6; S Isaiah 14:16; Hebrews 12:26
  • 14. S ver 11
  • 15. Leviticus 11:19
  • 16. S Job 22:24; Ezekiel 36:25; Revelation 9:20
  • 17. Ezekiel 7:19-20; Ezekiel 14:6
  • 18. S Exodus 33:22
  • 19. S Psalms 145:12
  • 20. Isaiah 33:10
  • 21. S ver 19
  • 22. Psalms 118:6,8; Psalms 146:3; Isaiah 51:12; Jeremiah 17:5
  • 23. S Genesis 2:7; S Psalms 144:4
  • 24. S Job 12:19; Psalms 8:4; Psalms 18:42; Psalms 144:3; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 40:15; S James 4:14

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew "every ship of Tarshish"
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