Isaiah 24:3
What does Isaiah 24:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 24:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
Context
v.2And 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
v.3This passage
v.4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Micah 4:4
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.
- Deuteronomy 29:23
and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
- Isaiah 24:1
Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
- Jeremiah 13:15
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for Jehovah hath spoken.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21
to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
- Deuteronomy 29:28
and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
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