Isaiah 5:15
Good News Translation
Everyone will be disgraced, and all who are proud will be humbled.

New Revised Standard Version
People are bowed down, everyone is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.

Contemporary English Version
Its citizens have been put down, and its proud people have been brought to shame.

New American Bible
All shall be abased, each one brought low, and the eyes of the haughty lowered,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

the mean

Isaiah 2:9,11,17 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not. . . .

Isaiah 9:14-17 And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day. . . .

Isaiah 24:2-4 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth. . . .

Psalm 62:9 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Jeremiah 5:4,5,9 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. . . .

James 1:9-11 But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation: . . .

Revelation 6:15,16 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: . . .

the eyes

Isaiah 10:12 And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.

Isaiah 13:11 And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

Isaiah 37:23,29 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. . . .

Exodus 9:17 Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?

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1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

Context
Woes to the Wicked
14Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it. 15And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.16And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:28
And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt humble the haughty.

Psalm 131:1
A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.

Proverbs 30:13
A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.

Isaiah 2:9
And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

Isaiah 2:11
The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 10:33
Behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall break the earthen vessel with terror, and the tall of stature shall be cut down, and the lofty shall be humbled.

Isaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Zephaniah 3:11
In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain.

Isaiah 5:14
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