Isaiah 24:2
It will happen the same for everybody—whether people or priests, servants or their masters, maids or their mistresses, buyers or sellers, lenders or borrowers, creditors or debtors.
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3The earth will be completely laid waste and looted. This is what the Lord has said.
Cross References
Genesis 41:50It was during this time, before the years of famine came, that Joseph had two sons by Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Deuteronomy 23:19Don't charge a fellow Israelite interest on money, food, or any other kind of loan.
2 Chronicles 36:20Nebuchadnezzar took into exile in Babylon those who had not been killed. They were slaves for himself and his sons, until the kingdom of Persia took over.
Isaiah 3:2their strong fighters and soldiers, leaders and prophets, fortune-tellers and elders,
Isaiah 9:14So in just a single day the Lord will chop off Israel's head and tail, palm branch and reed.
Jeremiah 23:11Both prophets and priests show no respect for me. I see wickedness even in my Temple, declares the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:2-13
General Desolation Announced. ( b. c. 718.) 1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly… Read the whole commentary →