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Isaiah 2:22
22Do not trust people to help you. They are weak and they will all die one day. They are not strong enough to help you.
Isaiah 2:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
- New International Version (NIV)Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Sever yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?
Context of Isaiah 2:22
20At that time, people will throw away their silver idols and their gold idols. They made those idols so that they could worship them. But now they will throw them into caves where rats and bats live. 21The people themselves will look for caves and holes in the rocks where they can hide. They will try to escape from the Lord's punishment. They will see that he rules with great authority. They will be afraid when he comes to judge the people on earth. Do not trust people to help you. They are weak and they will all die one day. They are not strong enough to help you.
Read all of Isaiah 2Isaiah 2:22 word by word
חִדְל֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מִן־הָ֣אָדָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְשָׁמָ֖ה בְּאַפּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־בַמֶּ֥ה נֶחְשָׁ֖ב הֽוּא׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 2:22
- Psalms 62:9People are only as light as a breath! Whoever they are, they are not important. If you try to weigh them, all together, they weigh less than a breath of air.
- Psalms 146:3Do not trust in human leaders. No human can save you.
- Jeremiah 17:5The Lord says, ‘I will curse those who only trust people to help them. They think that human strength will save them, and they turn away from me, the Lord.
- Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and he made a man. He breathed air into the nose of the man to give him life. So the man became alive.
- Genesis 7:22Everything that lived on the dry land died. Nothing could breathe any more.
- Job 27:3As long as God's Spirit gives me life,
- Job 7:15I would like someone to stop me breathing! Death would be better than life.
- Psalms 8:4So why do you even think about men and women? Why do you take care of humans?
- Psalms 144:3Lord, why do you even think about men and women? Why do you take care of humans?
Commentaries on Isaiah 2:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Cease ye from man - Trust neither in him, nor in the gods that he has invented. Neither he, nor they, can either save or destroy.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Cease ye from man - That is, cease to confide in or trust in him. The prophet had just said Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:17 that the proud and lofty people would be brought low; that is, the kings, princes, and nobles would be humbled. They in whom the people had been accustomed to confide should show their insufficiency to afford protection. And he calls on the people to cease to put their reliance on any of the devices and refuges of men, implying that trust…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 The taking of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans seems first meant here, when idolatry among the Jews was done away; but our thoughts are led forward to the destruction of all the enemies of Christ. It is folly for those who are pursued by the wrath of God, to think to hide or shelter themselves from it. The shaking of the earth will be terrible to those who set their affections on things of the earth. Men's haughtiness will be brought down, either…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22The prophecy of judgment in Isaiah 2:6–21 between two related calls to action. First, the people are urged to trust the Lord (Isaiah 2:5). Then they are warned not to trust in human beings (Isaiah 2:22). Human strength does not last. It is weak and short-lived, like a person’s breath (see Psalm 90).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. The high ones (Is 2:11, 13) on whom the people trust, shall be "brought low" (Is 3:2); therefore "cease from" depending on them, instead of on the Lord (Psa 146:3-5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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