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    Isaiah · 23 verses

    Isaiah 24

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    The earth staggers like a drunkard, sways like a shack, and falls never to rise again—a remarkably poor evening for solid ground.

    The earth emptiedvv. 1–13

    The LORD lays waste the earth without respect for rank: priest and people, servant and master, buyer and seller all receive the same unsettled lodging. The land mourns, the wine dries up, the instruments fall silent, and the city of chaos is shut tight. What remains is compared to an olive tree after harvest, or grapes after the gleaners have finished: not quite nothing, but very nearly.

    Songs, pits, and snaresvv. 14–22

    Then, with the land scarcely more cheerful than a swept cupboard, voices rise from west to east and from the ends of the earth: “Glory to the Righteous One.” The speaker cannot join the chorus, being too busy wasting away and noticing that the treacherous are still treacherous. Escape offers no improvement: panic leads to a pit, the pit to a snare, and the shaken foundations wait beneath it all. Even the heavenly host and earthly kings are gathered into confinement, like prisoners put away for a very long time.

    The reign on Mount Zionv. 23

    At the last turn, the moon is confounded and the sun is ashamed. The LORD of Hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, before His elders with great glory; after all that staggering, the chapter ends with the heavens looking rather embarrassed.

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    1. Isa 24:1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

    2. Isa 24:2people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

    3. Isa 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

    4. Isa 24:4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

    5. Isa 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

    6. Isa 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

    7. Isa 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

    8. Isa 24:8The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

    9. Isa 24:9They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

    10. Isa 24:10The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

    11. Isa 24:11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

    12. Isa 24:12The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

    13. Isa 24:13So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

    14. Isa 24:14They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.

    15. Isa 24:15Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

    16. Isa 24:16From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

    17. Isa 24:17Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.

    18. Isa 24:18Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

    19. Isa 24:19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

    20. Isa 24:20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.

    21. Isa 24:21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.

    22. Isa 24:22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

    23. Isa 24:23The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.

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    • 5Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
    • 23Isaiah 60:19No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
    • 21Psalms 76:12He breaks the spirits of princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.
    • 1Nahum 2:10She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
    • 6Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
    • 18Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
    • 18Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
    • 20Isaiah 19:14The LORD has poured into her a spirit of confusion. Egypt has been led astray in all she does, as a drunkard staggers through his own vomit.
    • 21Zechariah 14:12–19And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
    • 23Revelation 21:23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
    • 23Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
    • 1Isaiah 24:20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
    • 1Isaiah 42:15I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
    • 2Hosea 4:9And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
    • 3Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
    • 5Romans 8:20–21For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

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