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Isaiah 2

Isa. 2:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Cease
chadal (Hebrew #2308)
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
KJV usage: cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
Pronounce: khaw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
u ye from man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
, whose breath
nshamah (Hebrew #5397)
a puff, i.e. wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. or (concretely) an animal
KJV usage: blast, (that) breath(-eth), inspiration, soul, spirit.
Pronounce: nesh-aw-maw'
Origin: from 5395
is in his nostrils
'aph (Hebrew #639)
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV usage: anger(-gry), + before, countenance, face, + forebearing, forehead, + (long-)suffering, nose, nostril, snout, X worthy, wrath.
Pronounce: af
Origin: from 599
: for wherein is he to be accounted of
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 146:3‑4• 3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. (Psa. 146:3‑4)
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Jer. 17:5• 5Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. (Jer. 17:5)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Cease.
Psa. 62:9• 9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. (Psa. 62:9)
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Psa. 146:3• 3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. (Psa. 146:3)
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Jer. 17:5• 5Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. (Jer. 17:5)
whose.
Gen. 2:7• 7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7)
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Gen. 7:22• 22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. (Gen. 7:22)
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Job 27:3• 3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; (Job 27:3)
for wherein.
Job 7:15‑21• 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
 16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
 17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
 18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
 19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
 20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. (Job 7:15‑21)
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Psa. 8:4• 4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psa. 8:4)
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Psa. 144:3‑4• 3Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
 4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. (Psa. 144:3‑4)
• As it was with Israel in Isaiah’s day so in the world today, man is catered for, man is magnified; but if we “Walk in the light of the Lord” (verse 5), his littleness is seen, and we “cease from man”. He is but a dying creature because of his sin. Before God he counts for nothing in himself. (“Isaiah 2” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Cease ye from mand, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

JND Translation Notes

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d
The Adam, "mankind," as ch. 6.12, "men."