God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 24:3
3The earth will be completely laid waste and stripped because the Lord has spoken.
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
1The Lord is going to turn the earth into a desolate wasteland. He will mar the face of the earth and scatter the people living on it. 2The same will happen to people and priests, male slaves and masters, female slaves and masters, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, debtors and creditors. The earth will be completely laid waste and stripped because the Lord has spoken. 4The earth dries up and withers. The world wastes away and withers. The great leaders of the earth waste away. 5The earth is polluted by those who live on it because they’ve disobeyed the Lord’s teachings, violated his laws, and rejected the everlasting promise.
Read all of Isaiah 24Isaiah 24:3 word by word
הִבּ֧וֹק׀ תִּבּ֛וֹק הָאָ֖רֶץ וְהִבּ֣וֹז׀ תִּבּ֑וֹז כִּ֣י יְהוָ֔ה דִּבֶּ֖ר אֶת־הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 24:3
- Isaiah 24:1The Lord is going to turn the earth into a desolate wasteland. He will mar the face of the earth and scatter the people living on it.
- Isaiah 6:11I asked, “How long, O Lord?” And he replied, “Until the cities lie in ruins with no one living in them, the houses have no people, and the land is completely desolate.
- Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your worship sites, cut down your incense altars, and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will look at you with disgust.
- Deuteronomy 29:23They will see all the soil poisoned with sulfur and salt. Nothing will be planted. Nothing will be growing. There will be no plants in sight. It will be as desolate as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, cities the Lord destroyed in fierce anger.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21This happened so that the Lord’s words spoken through Jeremiah would be fulfilled. The land had its years of rest and was made acceptable ⌞again⌟. While it lay in ruins, ⌞the land had its⌟ 70 years of rest.
- Ezekiel 36:4“ ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the Almighty Lord’s word. This is what the Almighty Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, and to the empty ruins and abandoned cities that have become prey and are mocked by the rest of the surrounding nations:
- Isaiah 21:17The remaining number of archers, Kedar’s mighty archers, will be few. The Lord God of Israel has spoken.
- Isaiah 22:25The Lord of Armies declares, “On that day the peg which I firmly fastened in place will be removed. It will be cut off and will fall, and everything hanging on it will be destroyed.” The Lord has spoken.
- Jeremiah 13:15Listen, and pay attention! Don’t be arrogant. The Lord has spoken.
- Micah 4:4They will sit under their grapevines and their fig trees, and no one will make them afraid. The Lord of Armies has spoken.
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
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