Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth.
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.
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.
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.
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 utterly depopulated and completely laid waste for the LORD has spoken this message. 4 "The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth. 5 The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Cross References
Isaiah 33:9
The land mourns and wastes away; Lebanon feels ashamed and withers. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves."
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn, and all who live there will languish, along with the wild animals of the field and the birds of the air. Even the fish in the sea will disappear.
Isaiah 2:11-12
The haughty looks of mankind will be brought low, the lofty pride of human beings will be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted at that time.
Isaiah 3:26
and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground."
Isaiah 28:1
How terrible it will be for that arrogant garland the drunks of Ephraim! How terrible it will be for that fading flower of his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, of people overcome with wine!
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.
Jeremiah 4:28
Because of this, the land will mourn, and the heavens above will be dark. Because I have spoken and decided, I won't turn back from doing it."
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the vegetation of every field dry up? Because of the wickedness of those who live in it, animals and birds are swept away. For they say, "He does not see our future."