Isaiah 24:6

Isaiah 24:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, And those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, And few men are left.

Context of Isaiah 24:6

4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away. 5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive. 7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. 8The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

Isaiah 24:6 word by word

עַל־כֵּ֗ן אָלָה֙ אָ֣כְלָה אֶ֔רֶץ וַֽיֶּאְשְׁמ֖וּ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָ֑הּ עַל־כֵּ֗ן חָרוּ֙ יֹ֣שְׁבֵי אֶ֔רֶץ וְנִשְׁאַ֥ר אֱנ֖וֹשׁ מִזְעָֽר׃Read the interlinear

• Thereforeעַל‛al · uponH5921
• Thereforeכֵּןkên · soH3651
• a curseאָלָה'âlâh · oathH423
• has consumedאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• and its inhabitantsיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• must bear the guiltאָשַׁם'âsham 'âshêm · be guiltyH816
• have been burnedחָרַרchârar · to scorchH2787
• and only a fewאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
• and only a fewמִזְעָרmiz‛âr · littleH4213
• surviveשָׁאַרshâ'ar · to remainH7604

Cross-references for Isaiah 24:6

• Isaiah 42:24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
• Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
• Deuteronomy 30:18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
• Joshua 23:15But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
• Zechariah 5:3Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
• Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
• Malachi 3:9You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
• Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
• Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
• Leviticus 26:22I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
• Deuteronomy 4:27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
• Deuteronomy 28:62You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
• Ezekiel 5:3But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.
• Matthew 7:14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
• Romans 9:27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
• 2 Peter 3:10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.

Commentaries on Isaiah 24:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Are burned "Are destroyed" - For חרו charu, read חרבו charebu . See the Septuagint, Syriac, Chaldee and Symmachus.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Therefore hath the curse devoured - Eaten it up; a figurative expression that is common in the Scriptures, denoting that the desolation is widespread and ruinous. Are burned - (חרוּ chârû ). Instead of this reading, Lowth proposes to read: חרבוּ chârebû Are destroyed.‘ The Septuagint reads it, Therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be poor.‘ The Syriac, The inhabitants of the land shall be slain.‘ But there is no authority from the manuscripts to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Sin has such a strong impact that nothing on earth can fully make up for it. Our hope is in God. Through Christ, God has made peace with the world (Colossians 1:19–20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. earth--the land. burned--namely, with the consuming wrath of heaven: either internally, as in Job 30:30 [Rosenmuller]; or externally, the prophet has before his eyes the people being consumed with the withering dryness of their doomed land (so Joe 1:10, 12), [Maurer].Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings