There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—
Parallel translations
- WEB There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.
- KJV There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
- NKJV There is a generation—oh, how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
- NASB There is a kind—oh how lofty are his eyes! And his eyelids are raised in arrogance.
- NLT They look proudly around, casting disdainful glances.
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There is a generation marked by proud, haughty eyes and looks of contempt.
Overview
Lofty, lifted-up eyes are a biblical picture of arrogance, here describing a people consumed by pride. Such haughtiness is among the things God most detests, for it exalts self against Him and looks down on others. The remedy is the humility Christ both taught and embodied, lifting up the lowly and bringing down the proud.
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- Prov 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
- Isa 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
- Ps 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- Ps 131:1A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
- Isa 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
- Prov 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the guides of the wicked—are sin.
- Dan 11:36–37Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
- Hab 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
- Ezek 28:2–5“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- Ezek 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
- 2 Th 2:3–4Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
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