Parallel Verses
Amplified
The earth dries up and crumbles away, the world dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Holman Bible
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
International Standard Version
"The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth.
A Conservative Version
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
American Standard Version
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
Bible in Basic English
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
Darby Translation
The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
Julia Smith Translation
The earth mourning, fell away: the habitable globe languishing, fell away: the heights of the people of the land languished,
King James 2000
The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The earth dries up, it withers; [the] world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,
Modern King James verseion
The earth mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught.
NET Bible
The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.
New Heart English Bible
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
The Emphasized Bible
Mourneth, fadeth, the earth Languisheth, fadeth, the world, - Languished have the lofty of the people of the earth.
Webster
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
World English Bible
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.
Interlinear
Nabel
נבל
Nabel
fade, fade away, wear away, wither, disgrace, surely, dishonoureth, fall down, esteemed, falling, foolishly, come to nought, fall off, surely, make vile
Usage: 25
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 24:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Judgment On The Earth
3
The earth will be completely laid waste and utterly pillaged, for the Lord has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up and crumbles away, the world dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.
5
The earth also is polluted
Cross References
Isaiah 33:9
The land mourns and dries out,
Lebanon is shamed and [its lush foliage] withers;
And
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land [continually] mourns,
And everyone who lives in it languishes [in tragic suffering]
Together with the animals of the open country and the birds of the heavens;
Even the fish of the sea disappear.
Isaiah 2:11-12
The proud look of man will be degraded
And the arrogance of men will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 3:26
And Jerusalem’s gates will lament (cry out in grief) and mourn [as those who wail for the dead];
And she, being ruined and desolate, will sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 28:1
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the rich valley
Of those who are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 64:6
For we all have become like one who is [ceremonially] unclean [like a leper],
And all our deeds of righteousness are like filthy rags;
We all wither and decay like a leaf,
And our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing], like the wind, takes us away [carrying us far from God’s favor, toward destruction].
Jeremiah 4:28
“For this reason the earth shall mourn
And the heavens above shall become dark,
Because I have spoken, I have decided,
And I will not change my mind (relent), nor will I turn back from it.”
Jeremiah 12:4
How long must the land mourn
And the grass of the countryside wither?
Because of the wickedness and hypocrisy of those who live in it,
The beasts and the birds are consumed and are swept away [by the drought],
Because men [mocking me] have said, “He will not [live long enough to] see [what happens at] our final end.”