Isaiah 37:23

WEB

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

KJV

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Commentary

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?.... A creature like thyself? no, but a God, and not one like the gods of the nations, the idols of w ood and stone, but the living God: and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice? alluding to Rabshakeh's crying with a loud voice, Isa 36:13 , and lifted up thine eyes on high? as proud and haughty persons do, disdaining to look upon those they treat with contempt: even against the Holy One of Israel; that is, Israel's God, and will protect him; "a Holy One", and of purer eyes than to behold with pleasure such a proud blaspheming creature, and cannot look upon him but with indignation; for against such he sets himself; these he resists, pulls down, and destroys.