Isaiah 2:22

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Summary

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Cease

Whose

For wherein

Bible References

Cease

Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.

Do not trust in nobles,
in man, who cannot save.

This is what the Lord says:

The man who trusts in mankind,
who makes human flesh his strength
and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed.

Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.

Do not trust in nobles,
in man, who cannot save.

This is what the Lord says:

The man who trusts in mankind,
who makes human flesh his strength
and turns his heart from the Lord is cursed.

Whose

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils—everything on dry land died.

as long as my breath is still in me
and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,