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Isaiah 24:4
4The earth becomes dry and all the plants die. The whole world becomes weak and helpless. Its important people also become weak.
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
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. 3The whole earth will become empty. Nothing will remain. The Lord has said that this punishment will certainly happen. The 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. 6That is why a curse is destroying the land. The people who live on it are guilty and God is punishing them. They become fewer and fewer. Only a very few of them remain.
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 3:26The city's gates will see all this and they will weep! The city will be empty. Zion will be like a poor woman who sits on the ground, completely alone.
- Isaiah 28:1It will be very bad for Ephraim's beautiful city, Samaria! The people who live there drink too much wine and they become drunk. They are proud of their great city. It is on a hill above a valley where many good things grow. It is like a beautiful flower, but it will be beautiful no more and it will die.
- Isaiah 33:9The land itself is dry and useless. Lebanon's forest is dying. Sharon has become like a desert. The trees in Bashan and Carmel have no leaves.
- Isaiah 64:6Our sins have made us all like unclean people, who cannot worship you. Even the good things that we try to do are like dirty bits of cloth. Our sins will blow us all away, as the wind blows away dead leaves.
- Jeremiah 4:28So the earth will be sad and weep. The sky will become dark. I have said what I will do. And I will not change my thoughts. I will do as I have decided.’
- Jeremiah 12:4Our land has been dry for a long time. The grass everywhere is dying. How long will this continue? The animals and the birds are dying. This has happened because the people who live in this land do wicked things. They like to boast, ‘God will not see what happens to us.’
- Hosea 4:3Because of this, the land will become like a desert. Everyone who lives there will become weak. Everything will die: the wild animals, the birds, and even the fish in the sea.
- Isaiah 2:11The Lord will bring proud people down low. People who boast will have to stop. On that day, people will see that only the Lord is great.
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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