King James Version
Isaiah 2:17 in the King James Version says “And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be ...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 2:17 · KJV
And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. pleasant: Heb. pictures of desire
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.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish. he: or, shall utterly pass away
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. of the earth: Heb. of the dust
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shall be made low”
H8213to depress or sink (especially figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“alone shall be exalted”
H7682to be (causatively, make) lofty, especially inaccessible; by implication, safe, strong; used literally and figuratively
“and the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with preposit
“in that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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