Isaiah 24:2
And there shalbe like people, like Priest, and like seruaunt, like master, like maide, like mistresse, like bier, like seller, like lender, like borower, like giuer, like taker to vsurie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
3The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.
Cross References
Genesis 41:50Now vnto Ioseph were borne two sonnes (before the yeeres of famine came) which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On bare vnto him.
Deuteronomy 23:19Thou shalt not giue to vsurie to thy brother: as vsurie of money, vsurie of meate, vsurie of any thing that is put to vsurie.
2 Chronicles 36:20And they that were left by the sworde, caryed he away to Babel, and they were seruants to him and to his sonnes, vntill the kingdome of the Persians had rule,
Isaiah 3:2The strong man, and the man of warre, the iudge and the prophet, the prudent and the aged,
Isaiah 9:14Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and taile, branche and rush in one day.
Jeremiah 23:11For both the prophet and the Priest doe wickedly: and their wickednesse haue I found in mine House, saith 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 →