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You shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
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Pride Brought to Dust
All the commentators agree that this verse describes the complete humiliation of a proud people. Calvin highlights that their arrogant, defiant language against God will be silenced. Once boastful and loud, Jerusalem will be brought so low that its voice becomes a weak, shameful whisper from the dust, signifying a total reversal of its fortunes.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And shalt speak out of the ground - (see the note at Isaiah 8:19). The sense here is that Jerusalem, which had been accustomed to p…
19th Century
Anglican
Shalt speak out of the ground. —The words paint the panic of the besieged, the words pointing probably to Sennacherib’s i…
16th Century
Protestant
Then shalt thou be laid low. He scornfully describes that arrogance which led the Jews to despise all threats and admonitions as long as t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall be brought down To the ground, and laid level with it, even the city of Jerusalem, as it was by the Ro…
Ariel may signify the altar of burnt offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make people free from judgments. Hypocr…
13th Century
Catholic
Woe to Ariel. In this part, he presents a threat against the people or against the city, and this is divided into two parts.
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