The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.
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… But we've been reading Isaiah, and Isaiah is all about how God one day is going to make sure that everyone is humbled. He says there's a day in Isaiah chapter 2, verse 11. It says, The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. for the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty against all that is lifted up and it shall be brought low 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 and the idols shall utterly pass away and people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes in the ground from before the terror of the Lord and from the splendor of his majesty when he rises to terrify the earth. Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he? …
… Verse 11, The haughty looks of man shall be brought low. The lofty pride of men shall be humbled. And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty. Against all that is lifted up. and it shall be brought low. See, one of the things about judgment is that nothing humbles us like judgment. What can be more humbling than the fact that your whole eternal destiny, your whole future is in the hands of one person? Like how big does that make you feel when he lumps everyone and all the inhabitants of the earth, and says that they're like a drop from a bucket and then here am I. I'm the one that decrees these things. And he explains about how he wants to humble his people. And so reading these passages and looking at the numbers of people that are humbled by his wrath, by his judgment, it should do something to us. …
"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. THIS is the case when God visits a nation with terrible judgments. When the Jews were led away captive into Babylon, the great men of the land were bound in chains and treated as common slaves. And as they marched across the weary wilderness, the iron entered into their souls. Then was the loftiness of their spirit bowed down and the haughtiness of the king and the princes, who laughed at the Prophet, was laid low. So also when God is pleased to send famine upon a land, then again man has to humble himself. It is not easy to say, "I am my own. Who is Lord over me?" when the barn is empty and when the wine vats no longer burst with new wine. Famine is a wondrous leveler—and when the king of Samaria went through his straitened cities—where women had eaten their own children in the straitness of the siege, I think there was none brought so low as the king—none so humbled as the highest and none so base as the haughtiest! …