Isaiah 2:9
Good News Translation
Everyone will be humiliated and disgraced. Do not forgive them, LORD!

New Revised Standard Version
And so people are humbled, and everyone is brought low— do not forgive them!

Contemporary English Version
And so, all of them will be ashamed and disgraced. Don't forgive them!

New American Bible
So all shall be abased, each one brought low. Do not pardon them!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the mean

Isaiah 5:15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

Psalm 49:2 All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

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

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and do need the glory of God.

Revelation 6:15-17 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: . . .

humbleth

Isaiah 57:9 And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.

Colossians 2:18,23 Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh: . . .

therefore

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Joshua 24:19 And Joshua said to the people: You will not be able to serve the Lord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive your wickedness and sins.

Jeremiah 18:23 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Mark 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.

Context
The Day of Reckoning
8And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made. 9And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.10Enter thou into the rock, and hide thee in the pit from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:5
Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

Psalm 49:2
All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

Psalm 59:5
Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity.

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.

Isaiah 5:15
And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

Jeremiah 18:23
But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Isaiah 2:8
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