Yesaya 2:9

2:9 Men bow down to them in homage,

they lie flat on the ground in worship. ¹ 

Don’t spare them! ² 

Yesaya 23:9

23:9 The Lord who commands armies planned it –

to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, ³ 

to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

Yehezkiel 28:2

28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince ⁴  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud ⁵  and you said, “I am a god; ⁶ 

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike. ⁷ 

Daniel 4:37

4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live ⁸  in pride.

[2:9]  ¹ tn Heb “men bow down, men are low.” Since the verbs שָׁחָח (shakhakh) and שָׁפַל (shafal) are used later in this discourse to describe how God will humiliate proud men (see vv. 11, 17), some understand v. 9a as a prediction of judgment, “men will be brought down, men will be humiliated.” However, these prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive appear to carry on the description that precedes and are better taken with the accusation. They draw attention to the fact that human beings actually bow down and worship before the lifeless products of their own hands.

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “don’t lift them up.” The idiom “lift up” (נָשָׂא with לְ, nasa’ with preposition lamed) can mean “spare, forgive” (see Gen 18:24, 26). Here the idiom plays on the preceding verbs. The idolaters are bowed low as they worship their false gods; the prophet asks God not to “lift them up.”

[23:9]  ³ tn Heb “the pride of all the beauty.”

[28:2]  ⁴ tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

[28:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “lifted up.”

[28:2]  sn See Prov 16:5.

[28:2]  ⁶ tn Or “I am divine.”

[28:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”

[4:37]  ⁸ tn Aram “walk.”