Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Cease ye from man The high ones (Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:13) on whom the people trust, shall be 'brought low' (Isaiah 3:2); therefore "cease ye from man" - depend not on man instead of on the Lord (Psalms 146:3-5).
Whose breath is in his nostrils - and so liable to be taken from him at any moment (Psalms 104:29).
Remarks: The kingdom of Christ is come spiritually, but is not yet come visibly. It is as yet only in the stage of the stone smiting the image of the world-power. The time is yet to come, termed here "the last days," wherein it shall become "a great mountain, and shall fill the whole earth." Jerusalem and its temple, which is "the mountain of the Lord's house," shall be the central seat of this glorious kingdom, which shall be exalted above all earthly elevations. Then shall the Lord's house at Jerusalem be "a house of prayer for all nations," which it certainly never yet has been. As to the means whereby this consummation shall be brought about, Isaiah here states that it shall be through "the Word of the Lord going forth from Jerusalem." The present Church, gathered by election from Jews and Gentiles without distinction, is the fruit of the gospel-preaching which has gone forth "among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." And the coming world-wide Church, comprising all kingdoms of the earth as such, shall be the fruit of the "Lord's restoring again the kingdom to Israel."