Isaiah 2:17

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The pride of mankind will be brought low,and human loftiness will be humbled;the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Hebrew Names Version
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

King James Version
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

English Standard Version
And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

New American Standard Bible
And the pride of humanity will be humbled And the arrogance of people will be brought low; And the LORD alone will be exalted on that day,

New Century Version
At that time proud people will be made humble, and they will bow low with shame. At that time only the Lord will be praised,

Amplified Bible
Then the pride of man will be humbled And the arrogance of men will be degraded; The LORD alone shall be exalted in that day,

World English Bible
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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the hautinesse of men shalbe brought low, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord shall onely be exalted in that day.

Legacy Standard Bible
The loftiness of man will be bowed down,And the men who are high will be made low;And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day,

Berean Standard Bible
So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

Contemporary English Version
When that day comes, everyone who is proud will be put down. Only the Lord will be honored.

Complete Jewish Bible
The pride of man will be bowed down, the arrogance of men will be humiliated, and when that day comes, Adonai alone will be exalted.

Darby Translation
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day:

Easy-to-Read Version
At that time those proud people will fall. They will bow low to the ground, and only the Lord will stand high.

George Lamsa Translation
And the loftiness of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of man shall be brought low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Good News Translation
Human pride will be ended, and human arrogance will be destroyed. Idols will completely disappear, and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

Lexham English Bible
And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

Literal Translation
And the pride of man shall be humbled; and the loftiness of men shall be abased; and Jehovah alone will be exalted in that day.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And it shall bringe downe the pryde of man, and laye mans presumptuousnesse full lowe, and the LORDE shal only haue the victory in that daye.

American Standard Version
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

Bible in Basic English
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.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

King James Version (1611)
And the loftinesse of man shall be bowed downe, and the hautinesse of men shalbe made low: and the Lord alone shalbe exalted in that day.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the pride of man shalbe brought downe, and the loftinesse of men shalbe made lowe, and the Lorde alone shalbe exalted in that day:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

English Revised Version
And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al the hiynesse of men schal be bowid doun, and the hiynesse of men schal be maad low; and the Lord aloone schal be reisid in that dai,

Update Bible Version
And 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the loftiness of man shall be abased, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

New English Translation
Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

New King James Version
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

New Living Translation
Human pride will be humbled, and human arrogance will be brought down. Only the Lord will be exalted on that day of judgment.

New Life Bible
The pride of man will be taken away. What men honor will be put to shame. The Lord alone will be honored in that day.

New Revised Standard
The haughtiness of people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the haughtiness of mean men, shall be humbled, - And the loftiness of great men, shall be laid low, - And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the loftiness of men shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Revised Standard Version
And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the pride of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Young's Literal Translation
And bowed down hath been the haughtiness of man, And humbled the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The pride of man will be humbled And the loftiness of men will be abased; And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Head for the hills, hide in the caves From the terror of God , from his dazzling presence. ¹¹People with a big head are headed for a fall, pretentious egos brought down a peg. It's God alone at front-and-center on the Day we're talking about, The Day that God -of-the-Angel-Armies is matched against all big-talking rivals, against all swaggering big names; Against all giant sequoias hugely towering, and against the expansive chestnut; Against Kilimanjaro and Annapurna, against the ranges of Alps and Andes; Against every soaring skyscraper, against all proud obelisks and statues; Against ocean-going luxury liners, against elegant three-masted schooners. The swelled big heads will be punctured bladders, the pretentious egos brought down to earth, Leaving God alone at front-and-center on the Day we're talking about. ¹⁸ And all those sticks and stones dressed up to look like gods will be gone for good. ¹⁹ Clamber into caves in the cliffs, duck into any hole you can find. Hide from the terror of God , from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying. ²⁰On that Day men and women will take the sticks and stones They've decked out in gold and silver to look like gods and then worshiped, And they will dump them in any ditch or gully, Then run for rock caves and cliff hideouts To hide from the terror of God , from his dazzling presence, When he assumes his full stature on earth, towering and terrifying. ²² Quit scraping and fawning over mere humans, so full of themselves, so full of hot air! Can't you see there's nothing to them?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the loftiness: Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 13:11, Jeremiah 48:29, Jeremiah 48:30, Ezekiel 28:2-7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 8:2 - to humble Judges 7:2 - Israel 2 Chronicles 33:15 - he took Job 40:11 - behold Psalms 46:10 - I will be Psalms 57:5 - Be thou Psalms 94:2 - render Psalms 138:6 - but the proud Proverbs 21:4 - An high look Isaiah 4:1 - And in Isaiah 5:15 - the mean Isaiah 12:4 - his name Isaiah 23:9 - to stain Isaiah 33:5 - The Lord Jeremiah 9:15 - I will Hosea 2:18 - in that day Habakkuk 2:5 - a proud man Matthew 7:22 - to me Luke 14:11 - whosoever Romans 11:20 - Be 1 Corinthians 1:28 - to bring 2 Corinthians 10:5 - and every 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - ye James 4:6 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
Heaven and Earth were finished, down to the last detail.

Genesis 2:10
A river flows out of Eden to water the garden and from there divides into four rivers. The first is named Pishon; it flows through Havilah where there is gold. The gold of this land is good. The land is also known for a sweet-scented resin and the onyx stone. The second river is named Gihon; it flows through the land of Cush. The third river is named Hiddekel and flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:18
God said, "It's not good for the Man to be alone; I'll make him a helper, a companion." So God formed from the dirt of the ground all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the Man to see what he would name them. Whatever the Man called each living creature, that was its name. The Man named the cattle, named the birds of the air, named the wild animals; but he didn't find a suitable companion.

Genesis 2:21
God put the Man into a deep sleep. As he slept he removed one of his ribs and replaced it with flesh. God then used the rib that he had taken from the Man to make Woman and presented her to the Man.

Genesis 3:11
God said, "Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?"

Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."

Deuteronomy 30:15
Look at what I've done for you today: I've placed in front of you Life and Good Death and Evil.

Deuteronomy 30:19
I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. And love God , your God, listening obediently to him, firmly embracing him. Oh yes, he is life itself, a long life settled on the soil that God , your God, promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

1 Samuel 14:44
Saul said, "Yes. Jonathan most certainly will die. It's out of my hands—I can't go against God, can I?"

1 Samuel 22:16
The king said, "Death, Ahimelech! You're going to die—you and everyone in your family!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down,.... This, with what follows in this verse, is repeated for the confirmation and certainty of it; and also for the further explanation of what is before figuratively and metaphorically expressed. :-. Jarchi interprets "that day", here spoken of, of the day of judgment; and then indeed every tongue shall confess, whether they will or not, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, Philippians 2:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the loftiness ... - see the note at Isaiah 2:11. The repetition of this makes it strongly emphatic.