Isaiah 24:3

Isaiah 24:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
• New International Version (NIV)The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken this word.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the Lord has spoken this word.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the Lord has spoken this word.

Context of Isaiah 24:3

1Understand this! The Lord is ready to destroy the earth. It will become a desert. He will spoil the ground. He will chase away all the people who live on it. 2It will be the same for all people: priests as well as ordinary people, masters as well as their servants, rich ladies as well as their servant girls, sellers as well as buyers, people who lend money as well as those who borrow it, rich people as well as poor people. The whole earth will become empty. Nothing will remain. The Lord has said that this punishment will certainly happen. 4The earth becomes dry and all the plants die. The whole world becomes weak and helpless. Its important people also become weak. 5The people who live on the earth have caused it to become unclean. They have not obeyed God's laws. They have turned against his teaching. They have not obeyed the covenant that God made with them for ever.

Isaiah 24:3 word by word

הִבּ֧וֹק׀ תִּבּ֛וֹק הָאָ֖רֶץ וְהִבּ֣וֹז׀ תִּבּ֑וֹז כִּ֣י יְהוָ֔ה דִּבֶּ֖ר אֶת־הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• shall be utterlyבָּקַקbâqaq · to emptyH1238
• and utterlyבָּזַזbâzaz · to plunderH962
• for the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• hath spokenדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• this wordדָּבָרdâbâr · wordH1697

Cross-references for Isaiah 24:3

• Isaiah 24:1Understand this! The Lord is ready to destroy the earth. It will become a desert. He will spoil the ground. He will chase away all the people who live on it.
• Isaiah 6:11Then I asked the Lord, ‘For how long will this be, Lord God?’ He replied, ‘It must continue until enemies destroy their cities. Their houses will become a heap of stones and nobody will live in them. Their land will become useless and nothing will remain there.
• Leviticus 26:30The Lord will destroy the places where they worship false gods. He will destroy their very bad incense altars. He will put their dead bodies round their idols. He will hate them.
• Deuteronomy 29:23The whole land will become spoiled with salt and sulphur. No one will plant seed in it, because nothing will grow there. Even grass will not grow on it. The land will be useless, like the cities that the Lord destroyed when he was very angry with them. Those cities were Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim.
• 2 Chronicles 36:21In this way, the Lord's message that his prophet Jeremiah had spoken became true. The land of Judah was empty for 70 years. It was finally able to rest, like the rest on a Sabbath day.
• Ezekiel 36:4Because of this, mountains of Israel, listen to this message from me, the Almighty Lord. I say this to the hills, the mountains and the valleys. I say this to the empty places and the towns that have become heaps of stones where nobody lives. This has caused the nations around you to laugh at you and insult you.
• Isaiah 21:17Only a few of Kedar's brave soldiers will remain, with their bows and arrows.’ That is what the Lord, Israel's God, has said.
• Isaiah 22:25The Lord Almighty says, ‘When the time comes, the strong peg will fall out of the wall. I will cut it down and it will fall. Then all the things that hang on it will fall down as well.’ That is what the Lord has said.
• Jeremiah 13:15‘Listen carefully to me. Do not be too proud to listen! The Lord has spoken to you.
• Micah 4:4Everyone will sit under his own vine and his own fig tree. Nobody will make them afraid any longer. The Lord Almighty has promised this.

Commentaries on Isaiah 24:3

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The land - Hebrew, The earth,‘ as in Isaiah 24:1. It is here rendered correctly the land,‘ as it should have been there - meaning the land of Canaan. And spoiled - Its valuable possessions shall become the prey of the invading foe. This is an emphatic repetition of the declaration in Isaiah 24:1, to show the absolute certainty of that which was threatened.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-23Here, the judgments described in Isaiah 13–23 apply to all of creation.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-23The four chapters (the twenty-fourth through the twenty-seventh) form one continuous poetical prophecy: descriptive of the dispersion and successive calamities of the Jews (Is 24:1-12); the preaching of the Gospel by the first Hebrew converts throughout the world (Is 24:13-16); the judgments on the adversaries of the Church and its final triumph (Is 24:16-23); thanksgiving for the overthrow of the apostate faction (Is 25:1-12), and establishment of the…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