And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Both the ordinary person and the prominent person bowed down, showing that idolatry had penetrated every rank and class in Judah. What they bowed before were idols fashioned by human hands. To worship things made by themselves instead of their Creator showed how completely the nation had forgotten its Maker.
By Isaiah's time this false worship had grown so widespread and familiar that it no longer caused surprise. That universal bowing to idols placed the people under God's judgment, and this is what is meant by the declaration that they were not to be forgiven.
Both the ordinary person and the prominent person bowed down, showing that idolatry had penetrated every rank and class in Judah. What they bowed before were idols fashioned by human hands. To worship things made by themselves instead of their Creator showed how completely the nation had forgotten its Maker.
By Isaiah's time this false worship had grown so widespread and familiar that it no longer caused surprise. That universal bowing to idols placed the people under God's judgment, and this is what is meant by the declaration that they were not to be forgiven.