Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be completely devastated and completely stripped; 1 for Yahweh has spoken this word. 1

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The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

In Context

2It will come about that, as with the people, so with the priest; 1 as with the servant, so with his master; 1 as with the maid, so with her mistress; 1 as with the buyer, so with the seller; 1 as with the creditor, so with the debtor; 1 as with the receiver of interest, so with the giver of interest. 1

4The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and fades away, 1 the prominent people of the earth waste away. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.

Deuteronomy 29:28Yahweh has uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great fury, and has thrown them into another land, as today.'

Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, 1 “Until cities crash into ruins and are without inhabitants, 1 and the houses are without people, and the land falls into a desolate waste, 1

Isaiah 22:25On that day—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—the peg driven in a firm place will give way, break off, and fall, and the weight that was on it will be cut off—for Yahweh has spoken.

Isaiah 42:22But this is a people robbed and plundered; 1 they are all trapped in pits, held captive in prisons; 1 they have become a plunder with no one to rescue them, and no one says, “Bring them back!” 1

Ezekiel 36:4Therefore, mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says this to the mountains and the high hills, to the streambeds and valleys, to the uninhabited desolations and the forsaken cities that have become plunder and a subject of mocking for the other nations that surround 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 →

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