Isaiah 24:16
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: 'Glory to the righteous.' But I say: I waste away, I waste away, woe is me! The treacherous deal treacherously; yea, the treacherous deal very treacherously.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
17Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Cross References
Psalms 2:8Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for thine inheritance, and the ends of the earth for thy possession.
Psalms 58:10(58-11) The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 72:8May he have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the River unto the ends of the earth.
Psalms 106:15And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Isaiah 6:5Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 17:4And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
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 →