Isaiah 24 - Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

The Earth Judged

24 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
2 people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.(A)

4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
5 The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,(B)
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.(C)
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,(D)
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.
7 The new wine mourns;(E)
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.
8 The joyful tambourines(F) have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.
9 They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of chaos is shattered;(G)
every house is closed to entry.(H)
11 In the streets they cry[a] for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
12 Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
13 For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.(I)

14 They raise their voices, they sing out;
they proclaim in the west
the majesty of the Lord.
15 Therefore, in the east honor the Lord!
In the islands of the west
honor the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.(J)

But I said, “I waste away! I waste away![b]
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.(K)

17 Panic, pit, and trap await you(L)
who dwell on the earth.(M)
18 Whoever flees at the sound of panic
will fall into a pit,
and whoever escapes from the pit
will be caught in a trap.
For the windows are opened from heaven,(N)
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.(O)
19 The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth staggers like a drunkard(P)
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.

21 On that day(Q) the Lord will punish
the host of heaven above
and kings of the earth below.
22 They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit.(R)
They will be confined to a dungeon;(S)
after many days they will be punished.
23 The moon will be put to shame
and the sun disgraced,
because the Lord of Hosts will reign as king
on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
and He will display His glory
in the presence of His elders.(T)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 24:11 Lit streets she cries
  2. Isaiah 24:16 Hb obscure

Cross references

  1. 24:3 : Is 1:20; 6:11
  2. 24:5 : Gn 3:17; 6:5, 11-12; Nm 35:33; Is 9:17; 10:6
  3. 24:5 : Gn 9:16; 17:7; Ex 31:16; Lv 24:8; 2Sm 23:5; Ps 105:10; Is 55:3; 61:8; Jr 32:40; Ezk 16:60
  4. 24:6 : Jos 23:15; Is 34:5; 43:28; Zch 5:3-4
  5. 24:7 : Is 16:10; Jl 1:10, 12
  6. 24:8 : Ex 15:20; Jdg 11:34; 1Sm 18:6; Is 30:32; Jr 31:4
  7. 24:10 : Is 34:11
  8. 24:10 : Is 23:1
  9. 24:13 : Is 17:6
  10. 24:16 : Ex 9:27; Pr 21:12; Ac 3:14; 7:52; 22:14
  11. 24:16 : Is 21:2; 33:1; Jr 3:20; 5:11
  12. 24:17 : Am 5:19
  13. 24:17-18 : Jr 48:43-44
  14. 24:18 : Gn 7:11
  15. 24:18 : Ps 18:7; 46:2; Is 2:19, 21; 13:13
  16. 24:20 : Is 19:14
  17. 24:21 : Is 27:12
  18. 24:22 : Rv 20:1-3
  19. 24:22 : Rv 20:2
  20. 24:23 : Is 2:2-4; 1Co 15:54

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