Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 24:4
4The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away.
Isaiah 24:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
- New International Version (NIV)The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The earth mourns and fades away, The world languishes and fades away; The haughty people of the earth languish.
Context of Isaiah 24:4
2people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. 3The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the Lord has spoken this message. The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away. 5The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant. 6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth’s inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.
Read all of Isaiah 24Isaiah 24:4 word by word
אָבְלָ֤ה נָֽבְלָה֙ הָאָ֔רֶץ אֻמְלְלָ֥ה נָבְלָ֖ה תֵּבֵ֑ל אֻמְלָ֖לוּ מְר֥וֹם עַם־הָאָֽרֶץ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 24:4
- Isaiah 3:26Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
- Isaiah 28:1Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, and to the fading flower of its beautiful splendor, which is on the summit above the rich valley. Woe to those overcome with wine.
- Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and withers; Lebanon is ashamed and wilted. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
- Isaiah 64:6All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Jeremiah 4:28Because of this, the earth will mourn; the skies above will grow dark. I have spoken; I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back from it.”
- Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its residents, animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Hosea 4:3For this reason the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes, along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- Isaiah 2:11The pride of mankind will be humbled, and human loftiness will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.
Commentaries on Isaiah 24:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4The world languisheth - The world is the same with the land; that is, the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, orbis Israeliticus. See note on Isaiah 13:11; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4The earth mourneth - The word earth‘ here, as in Isaiah 24:1, means the land of Judea, or that and so much of the adjacent countries as would be subject to the desolation described. The figure here is taken from flowers when they lose their beauty and languish; or when the plant that lacks moisture, or is cut down, loses its vigor and its vitality, and soon withers (compare the note at Isaiah 1:30; Isaiah 34:4; Psalm 1:3). The world - (תבל têbêl )…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4earth … withers; the world languishes and fades: The prophets often used drought imagery to capture the attention of those who depend on the land (see also Jeremiah 23:10; Joel 1:12; Amos 1:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. world--the kingdom of Israel; as in Is 13:11, Babylon. haughty--literally, "the height" of the people: abstract for concrete, that is, the high people; even the nobles share the general distress.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
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