Isaiah 24:16
From the edge of the earth have we heard songs, “Glory to the righteous.” But I said, “Evil is mine, evil is mine, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
17Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the land.
Cross References
Psalms 2:8Ask it of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the uttermost ends of the earth.
Psalms 58:10(58:11) The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he will bathe his steps in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 72:8And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Psalms 106:15And he gave them what they had asked; but sent dryness into their soul.
Isaiah 6:5And I said, Woe is me! for I am lost; because a man of unclean lips am I, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips do I dwell; for the King, the Lord of hosts have my eyes seen.
Isaiah 17:4And it shall come to pass on that day, that the glory of Jacob shall vanish, and the fatness of his flesh shall become 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 →