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the day of the LORD. This is the first of twenty occurrences. In sixteen it is simply "y6m Jehovah" (Isa_13:6, Isa_13:9. Eze_13:5. Joe_1:15; Joe_2:1, Joe_2:11; Joe_2:3, Joe_2:14 (Heb_4:14). Amo_5:18, Amo_5:20. Oba_1:15. Zep_1:7, Zep_1:14, Zep_1:14. Mal_4:5). In four passages it is with Lamed (= L)
prefixed = for or to : viz. Isa_2:12. Eze_30:3. Zec_14:1; Zec_14:17 = a day known to Jehovah. In other places it is combined with other words, such as "wrath", "vengeance". In the N.T. it occurs four times: viz. 1Th_5:2. 2Th_2:2 (see note). 2Pe_3:10. Rev_1:10 (see note). Thus the expression is stamped with the number "four" (see App-10); for "the day of the LORD" is the day when everything done will be to abase man and exalt Jehovah. Now it is "man's day" (1Co_4:3, see note), when man exalts himself, and bows God out of the world He has created.
the LORD of hosts. See note on 1Sa_1:3.
proud = arrogant. Hebrew. ga'ah. Note the Figure of speech Synonymia.
lofty = haughty. Hebrew (rum). Same word as "haughtiness" (verses: Isa_2:11, Isa_2:17), "high" (verses: Isa_2:13, Isa_2:14). Note the Figure of speech Synonymia.
and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6), emphasizing each of the details in verses: Isa_2:11-18,
lifted up = self-satisfied. Hebrew. nas'a. Same as verses: Isa_2:13, Isa_2:14.
brought low. Hebrew. shaphal. Same word as "humbled" (Isa_2:11). Note the Figure of speech Synonymia.