Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 2:9

9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself : therefore forgive them not .

Men of all Ranks fall down and worship idols.

Cut off these incorrigible Idolaters. Such an Imprecation is not strange, considering the hainousness and inexcusableness of the Crime, the singular Condition of the Prophets, who spake such things not from any disorderly Passion, but by Divine Inspiration, and from a fervent Zeal for Gods Glory, which ever was and ought to be dearer to them than all the Interests of Men; and from a pious Care and Fear lest others should be infected by their Counsel or Example. Yet the Words may be taken as a Prediction, Thou wil[illegible: 1+ letters] not forgive them: By this I know thou hast determined utterly to destroy them; for the Hebrew Particle al is sometimes taken onely for a simple denial, as Psal. 121. 3. Prov. 12. 28.