Isaiah 24:16
From the ends of the earth, we have heard the praises of the glory of the Just One. And I said: “My secret is for myself! My secret is for myself! Woe to me! Those who would betray us have betrayed us, and they have betrayed us with the betrayal of transgression.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
17Dread, and the pit, and the snare are over you, O inhabitant of the earth!
Cross References
Psalms 2:8Ask of me and I will give to you: the Gentiles for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.
Psalms 58:10I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter.
Psalms 72:8They have thought and spoken wickedness. They have spoken iniquity in high places.
Psalms 106:15Let his mercies confess to the Lord, and let his miracles confess to the sons of men.
Isaiah 6:5And I said: “Woe to me! For I have remained silent. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live in the midst of a people having unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Isaiah 17:4And this shall be in that day: the glory of Jacob will be thinned, and the fatness of his flesh will be reduced.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:14-16
Hope in the End. ( b. c. 718.) 13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord , they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15 Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the isles of the sea. Here is mercy remembered in the midst of wrath. In Judah and Jerusalem, and the… Read the whole commentary →