Judgment on the Earth
1 Behold, the Lord (A)lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
2 And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the (B)creditor like the debtor.
3 The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.
4 The (C)earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the (D)exalted of the people of the earth fade away.
5 The earth is also (E)polluted (a)by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, (F)broke the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore, a (G)curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the (H)inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
Footnotes:
a.
Isaiah 24:5: ['Lit ', under]
b.
Isaiah 24:11: ['Lit is ', darkened]
c.
Isaiah 24:13: ['Lit ', striking]
d.
Isaiah 24:14: ['Lit ', sea]
e.
Isaiah 24:15: ['Lit ', region of light]
f.
Isaiah 24:15: ['Or ', islands]
g.
Isaiah 24:16: ['Lit ', Wasting to me, '!']
h.
Isaiah 24:16: ['Lit ', Wasting to me, '!']
i.
Isaiah 24:17: ['Lit ', Are upon you]
j.
Isaiah 24:18: ['Lit ', sound of terror]
k.
Isaiah 24:18: ['Lit ', goes up from the midst of]
l.
Isaiah 24:18: ['Lit ', from the height, '; i.e. heaven']
m.
Isaiah 24:20: ['Or ', hut]
n.
Isaiah 24:21: ['Lit ', the height in the height]
o.
Isaiah 24:22: ['Lit ', pit]
Cross references:
V.
Isaiah 24:15:
Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 42:4; Isaiah 42:10; Isaiah 42:12; Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 51:5; Isaiah 60:9; Isaiah 66:19
AB.
Isaiah 24:18:
Genesis 7:11
AD.
Isaiah 24:19:
Isaiah 24:1
AJ.
Isaiah 24:21:
Psalm 76:12
AM.
Isaiah 24:23:
Isaiah 13:10