Isaiah 2:11 (BSB)

The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

From Isaiah 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Isaiah 2:11

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Isaiah 2:11: 11 The loftiness of the looks of man The lofty looks of man. — Eng. Ver. shall be humbled Wicked men, relying on the wealth and quietness and prosperity which they at present enjoy, regard the threatenings of the Prophets with haughty disdain, and thus harden their hearts against God, and are even led to indulge in wantonness.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Isaiah 2:10-22: The prophet here goes on to show what a desolation would be brought upon their land when God should have forsaken them. This may refer particularly to their destruction by the Chaldeans first, and afterwards by the Romans, or it may have a general respect to the method God takes to awaken and humble proud sinners, and to put them out of conceit with that...
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Isaiah 2:11: The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,.... Particularly of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, assuming that to himself which belongs to God; looking down with contempt upon, and behaving haughtily and insolently to all below him; blaspheming the name of God, his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven; he...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Isaiah 2:11: lofty looks--literally, "eyes of pride" (Psa 18:27). humbled--by calamities. God will so vindicate His honor "in that day" of judgments, that none else "shall be exalted" (Zac 14:9).