Isaiah 24
About Isaiah Isaiah warns of judgment and promises comfort, a coming king, a suffering servant and a new creation.
1Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.SelectedIsaiah 24:1Ask
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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.SelectedIsaiah 24:2Ask
3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.SelectedIsaiah 24:3Ask
4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.SelectedIsaiah 24:4Ask
5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.SelectedIsaiah 24:5Ask
6Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.SelectedIsaiah 24:6Ask
7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.SelectedIsaiah 24:7Ask
8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.SelectedIsaiah 24:8Ask
9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.SelectedIsaiah 24:9Ask
10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.SelectedIsaiah 24:10Ask
11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.SelectedIsaiah 24:11Ask
12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.SelectedIsaiah 24:12Ask
13When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.SelectedIsaiah 24:13Ask
14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.SelectedIsaiah 24:14Ask
15Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.SelectedIsaiah 24:15Ask
16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.SelectedIsaiah 24:16Ask
17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.SelectedIsaiah 24:17Ask
18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.SelectedIsaiah 24:18Ask
19The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.SelectedIsaiah 24:19Ask
20The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.SelectedIsaiah 24:20Ask
21And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.SelectedIsaiah 24:21Ask
22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.SelectedIsaiah 24:22Ask
23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.SelectedIsaiah 24:23Ask
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