Isaiah 2:9

Isaiah 2:9. And the mean man boweth down, &c.— And the mean man shall be brought down, and the great man shall be humbled; and thou wilt not forgive them. Vitringa. This rendering is not only agreeable to the 11th and 17th verses of this chapter, and 15th of the fifth, but also to the scope of the argument; for the prophet begins here to describe the imminent severe judgment of God, wherewith he would punish the pride of these men, and their alienation from the true worship of God and the study of the divine law. This part of his discourse contains, first, a general proposition of the immediate judgment of God,—in this verse. Secondly, a declaration of it; Isa 2:10-22 with an exhortation adjoined agreeable to his discourse: Isaiah 2:22. Thirdly, a more special confirmation and elucidation of this judgment; from Isa 2:1 chap. 3: to Isaiah 2:8. The particle ו vau, rendered and, in the beginning of the present verse, often retains the signification of the future; and might here be rendered then or now. See Vitringa and Noldius.