The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
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The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
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The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
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The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 24:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 24:1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
- Isaiah 6:11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,
- Leviticus 26:30-35 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you. I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell in it will be astonished at it. I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
- Deuteronomy 29:23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
- Isaiah 21:17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
- Isaiah 22:25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”
- Ezekiel 36:4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
- Micah 4:4 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.
- Jeremiah 13:15 Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and…
Isa 24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Ver. 3. The land shall be utterly emptied.] See on Isa 24:1.
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For the Lord hath spoken this word.] And his words are not in vain. Doth he say, and shall he not do it? {Num 23:23}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled,....…
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled,.... Entirely emptied of its inhabitants, and wholly spoiled of its riches and substance; this is repeated, and with greater strength, to confirm what is before said, and which receives a greater confirmation by what follows:
for the Lord hath spoken this word; who is able to perform it, and who is faithful to his threatenings, as to his promises; not a word of his shall ever fail; the judgments threatened to the antichristian world are his true and faithful sayings; and the ruin of Rome is certain, because strong is the Lord that judgeth her, Rev 18:8.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The land - Hebrew, ‘The earth,’ as in Isa…
The land - Hebrew, ‘The earth,’ as in Isa 24:1. It is here rendered correctly ‘the land,’ as it should have been there - meaning the land of Canaan.
And spoiled - Its valuable possessions shall become the prey of the invading foe. This is an emphatic repetition of the declaration in Isa 24:1, to show the absolute certainty of that which was threatened.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3, 4. The earth — ארצ, (aretz,) earth, or…
3, 4. The earth — ארצ, (aretz,) earth, or land, occurs over twelve times in this chapter, and applies to the whole land of Israel. But its parallel, תבל, (tebel,) the inhabited world, may apply to all known nations.
Haughty people — High in social position and proud in spirit. Princes, alike with the lower classes, have no escape.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. For land read earth as Isa_24:1; Isa_24:4, &c.
3. For land read earth as Isa_24:1; Isa_24:4, &c.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The land; rather, the earth. The same word is…
The land; rather, the earth. The same word is used as in ver. I (arets). Utterly spoiled; i.e. "wasted by rival armies, which have carried fire and sword over the whole of it." Compare the declaration of our Lord, "Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.., all these are the beginning of sorrows". (Mat_24:6-8)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The earth will be completely devastated and completely stripped
The earth will be completely devastated and completely stripped
This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh will completely devastate the earth and he will remove everything with value" (See: Active or Passive)
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Yahweh has spoken this word
"Yahweh has said he would"
The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and fades away
These two phrases mean basically the same thing. AT: "Everything on earth will dry up and die" (See: Parallelism)
The earth ... the world
Both of these represent everything that is on the earth. (See: Metonymy)
The earth is polluted by its inhabitants
The people sinning and making the earth unacceptable to God is spoken of as if the people made the earth physically unclean. This can be stated in active form. AT: "The people have polluted the earth" (See: Metaphor and Active or Passive)
they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant
"they have not obeyed God's laws and statutes, and they have broken God's eternal covenant"
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Yahweh
word of God
world
waste
transgress
law
statute
eternity
covenant
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