Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 24:4
4The land faints and fades away, The world wilts and fades away, The exalted people of the earth wilt.
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
2So it shall be: as with the people, so with the kohen, as with a servant, so with his master, as with a maid, so with her mistress, as with a buyer, so with the seller, as with a lender, so with the borrower, as with a creditor, so with the debtor. 3The land will be utterly emptied, and totally plundered. For Adonai has spoken this word. The land faints and fades away, The world wilts and fades away, The exalted people of the earth wilt. 5The land is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed Torah, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore a curse will devour the land. Those dwelling there are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the land will be burned up, so the people remaining are few.
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 3:26Her gates will lament and mourn. Desolate, she will sit on the ground.
- Isaiah 28:1Oy , the proud crown of Ephraim’s drunks! Its glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is at the head of the fertile valleys of those overcome with wine!
- Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken bare.
- Isaiah 64:6No one calls on Your Name, or stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
- Jeremiah 4:28Therefore, the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow black. For I have spoken, I have purposed, nor will I relent, nor turn from it.
- Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of all the field wither? Because those living in it are evil, beasts and birds are swept away. For they said, “He cannot see our end.”
- Hosea 4:3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone dwelling in it will languish along with the beasts of the field and the flying creatures of the sky— even the fish of the sea will be removed.
- Isaiah 2:11The man of haughty eyes is humbled, the lofty ones brought low, for Adonai alone will be exalted in 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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