Isaiah 2:12
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English Standard Version (© 2001)
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;

King James Bible
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

American Standard Version
For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

Young's Literal Translation
For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

Isaiah 2:12 Additional Translations
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

The expression "that day" suggests the inquiry, What day is referred to? The prophet answers this question in the second strophe. "For Jehovah of hosts hath a day over everything towering and lofty, and over everything exalted; and it becomes low." "Jehovah hath a day" (yom layehovah), lit., there is to Jehovah a day, which already exists as a finished divine thought in that wisdom by which the course of history is guided (Isaiah 37:26, cf., Isaiah 22:11), the secret of which He revealed to the prophets, who from the time of Obadiah and Joel downwards proclaimed that day with one uniform watchword. But when the time appointed for that day should arrive, it would pass out of the secret of eternity into the history of time - a day of world-wide judgment, which would pass, through the omnipotence with which Jehovah rules over the hither as well as lower spheres of the whole creation, upon all worldly glory, and it would be brought low (shaphel). The current accentuation of Isaiah 2:12 is wrong; correct MSS have על with mercha, כל־נשׂא with tifcha. The word v'shâphel (third pers. praet. with the root-vowel ee) acquires the force of a future, although no grammatical future precedes it, from the future character of the day itself: "and it will sink down" (Ges. 126, 4).

Isaiah 2:12 Parallel Commentaries
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2 Samuel 22:28 You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
Job 24:1 "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
Job 40:11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.
Job 40:12 Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Psalm 131:1 A Song of Ascents. Of David. O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
Isaiah 13:6 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.