Isaiah 10:33

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Summary

Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

Lop

The high ones

Amos 2:9

And the haughty

General references

Bible References

Lop

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors;
And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

“Through your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest forest.

This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
‘She has despised you and mocked you,

The virgin daughter of Zion;

She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!

And the Lord sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword.

The high ones

“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,

Though his height was like the height of cedars

And he was strong as the oaks;
I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

And the haughty

The

proud look of man will be abased

And the loftiness of man will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

“Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

General references

Then he passed away, and lo, he was no more;
I sought for him, but he could not be found.

And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,
Against all the oaks of Bashan,

At the sound of the tumult peoples flee;
At the lifting up of Yourself nations disperse.

Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”