Isaiah 24:13
It will be like that all over the earth: there will only be a few people still alive, like what happens when workers beat all the olives off a tree and there are only a few left, or when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left on the vines.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
12Cities will be ruined and all their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
Cross References
Isaiah 6:13If even one tenth of the people survive and stay there, their enemies will invade the land again and burn everything. But, just like [MET] when an oak tree is cut down, a stump is left from which new shoots will grow, the people who remain in this land will be a group that will become large again and be ◄set apart for/dedicated to► me.”
Isaiah 17:4“At that time, Israel will become insignificant. It will be like [MET] a fat person who has become very thin.
Isaiah 17:6Only a few of the Israeli people will remain [MET], like [SIM] the few olives that remain on the top of a tree after the workers have caused all the other olives to fall to the ground. There will be only two or three olives in the top branches, or four or five olives on the other branches.” That is what the Commander of the armies of angels says.
Ezekiel 6:8But I will allow some of the Israelis to remain alive. They will escape being killed when their enemies scatter them among many other nations.
Ezekiel 9:4and said to him, “Go throughout Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who are very sad [DOU] because of the detestable things that are being done inside the city.”
Ezekiel 14:22But some of your people will remain alive, both adults and children. They will come to you, Ezekiel, in Babylon. And when you see their disgusting behavior and actions, you will realize that I had good reasons for causing the people of Jerusalem to experience those many great disasters [DOU] that I have sent to them.
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 →