Isaiah 2:17,18

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down Here the prophet expresses literally what he had delivered metaphorically in the preceding verses. The same things were asserted Isaiah 2:11, but they are here repeated, partly to assure the people of the certainty of them, and partly to fix them more deeply in their minds, because men are very backward to believe and consider things of this nature. And the idols he shall utterly abolish He will discover the impotency of idols to succour their worshippers, and thereby destroy the worship of them in the world.