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Brenton's Septuagint

Isaiah 24:19

the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Earth;   Earthquakes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Earthquake;   Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Clean;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eschatology;   Resurrection;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The earth is completely devastated;the earth is split open;the earth is violently shaken.
Hebrew Names Version
The eretz is utterly broken, the eretz is torn apart, the eretz is shaken violently.
King James Version
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
English Standard Version
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken.
New American Standard Bible
The earth is broken apart, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.
New Century Version
The earth will be broken up; the earth will split open; the earth will shake violently.
Amplified Bible
The earth is broken completely apart, The earth is split apart, The earth is shaken violently.
World English Bible
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth is mooued exceedingly.
Legacy Standard Bible
The earth is broken asunder;The earth is split through;The earth is shaken violently.
Berean Standard Bible
The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
Contemporary English Version
the earth is shattered, ripped to pieces.
Complete Jewish Bible
The earth cracks and breaks open, the earth crumbles to pieces, the earth trembles and totters.
Darby Translation
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is violently moved.
Easy-to-Read Version
There will be earthquakes, and the earth will split open.
George Lamsa Translation
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is utterly moved, the earth is staggering exceedingly.
Good News Translation
The earth will crack and shatter and split open.
Lexham English Bible
The earth is utterly broken; the earth is torn asunder; the earth is shaken violently.
Literal Translation
The earth is breaking, breaking! The earth is crashing, crashing! The earth is tottering, tottering.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The earth shal geue a greate crack, it shal haue a sore ruyne, and take an horrible fall.
American Standard Version
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.
Bible in Basic English
The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The earth is broken, broken down, the earth is crumbled in pieces, the earth trembleth and tottereth;
King James Version (1611)
The earth is vtterly broken downe, the earth is cleane dissolued, the earth is moued exceedingly.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The earth is vtterly broken downe, the earth hath a sore ruine, the earth quaketh exceedingly:
English Revised Version
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The erthe schal be brokun with brekyng,
Update Bible Version
The earth is completely broken, the earth is rent apart, the earth is shaken violently.
Webster's Bible Translation
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is entirely dissolved, the earth is exceedingly moved.
New English Translation
The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.
New King James Version
The earth is violently broken, The earth is split open, The earth is shaken exceedingly.
New Living Translation
The earth has broken up. It has utterly collapsed; it is violently shaken.
New Life Bible
The earth is broken in pieces. The earth is torn apart. The earth is very shaken.
New Revised Standard
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn asunder, the earth is violently shaken.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The earth breaketh, breaketh, - The earth crasheth, crasheth, The earth tottereth, tottereth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
With breaking shall the earth be broken, with crushing shall the earth be crushed, with trembling shall the earth be moved.
Revised Standard Version
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken.
Young's Literal Translation
Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.
THE MESSAGE
The Landscape Will Be a Moonscape Danger ahead! God 's about to ravish the earth and leave it in ruins, Rip everything out by the roots and send everyone scurrying: priests and laypeople alike, owners and workers alike, celebrities and nobodies alike, buyers and sellers alike, bankers and beggars alike, the haves and have-nots alike. The landscape will be a moonscape, totally wasted. And why? Because God says so. He's issued the orders. The earth turns gaunt and gray, the world silent and sad, sky and land lifeless, colorless. Earth is polluted by its very own people, who have broken its laws, Disrupted its order, violated the sacred and eternal covenant. Therefore a curse, like a cancer, ravages the earth. Its people pay the price of their sacrilege. They dwindle away, dying out one by one. No more wine, no more vineyards, no more songs or singers. The laughter of castanets is gone, the shouts of celebrants, gone, the laughter of fiddles, gone. No more parties with toasts of champagne. Serious drinkers gag on their drinks. The chaotic cities are unlivable. Anarchy reigns. Every house is boarded up, condemned. People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever— no more joy for this old world. The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble. That's the way it will be on this earth. This is the fate of all nations: An olive tree shaken clean of its olives, a grapevine picked clean of its grapes. But there are some who will break into glad song. Out of the west they'll shout of God 's majesty. Yes, from the east God 's glory will ascend. Every island of the sea Will broadcast God 's fame, the fame of the God of Israel. From the four winds and the seven seas we hear the singing: "All praise to the Righteous One!" But I said, "That's all well and good for somebody, but all I can see is doom, doom, and more doom." All of them at one another's throats, yes, all of them at one another's throats. Terror and pits and booby traps are everywhere, whoever you are. If you run from the terror, you'll fall into the pit. If you climb out of the pit, you'll get caught in the trap. Chaos pours out of the skies. The foundations of earth are crumbling. Earth is smashed to pieces, earth is ripped to shreds, earth is wobbling out of control, Earth staggers like a drunk, sways like a shack in a high wind. Its piled-up sins are too much for it. It collapses and won't get up again. That's when God will call on the carpet rebel powers in the skies and Rebel kings on earth. They'll be rounded up like prisoners in a jail, Corralled and locked up in a jail, and then sentenced and put to hard labor. Shamefaced moon will cower, humiliated, red-faced sun will skulk, disgraced, Because God -of-the-Angel-Armies will take over, ruling from Mount Zion and Jerusalem, Splendid and glorious before all his leaders.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently.

Contextual Overview

16 O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law. 17 Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken, 19 the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed. 20 It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise. 21 And God shall bring his hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth. 22 And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited. 23 And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before his elders.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 24:1-5, Isaiah 34:4-10, Jeremiah 4:23-28, Nahum 1:5, Habakkuk 3:6, Matthew 24:3, Revelation 20:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:11 - all Genesis 7:21 - General Deuteronomy 32:22 - shall consume Job 9:6 - shaketh Psalms 97:5 - hills Psalms 99:1 - be moved Isaiah 33:9 - earth Amos 8:8 - the land Matthew 24:7 - famines 2 Peter 3:11 - all these

Cross-References

Genesis 24:14
And it shall be, the virgin to whomsoever I shall say, Incline thy water-pot, that I may drink, and she shall say, Drink thou, and I will give thy camels drink, until they shall have done drinking—even this one thou hast prepared for thy servant Isaac, and hereby shall I know that thou hast dealt mercifully with my master Abraam.
Genesis 24:45
And it came to pass before I had done speaking in my mind, straightway Rebecca came forth, having her pitcher on her shoulders; and she went down to the well, and drew water; and I said to her, Give me to drink.
Genesis 24:46
And she hasted and let down her pitcher on her arm from her head, and said, Drink thou, and I will give thy camels drink; and I drank, and she gave the camels drink.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The earth is utterly broken down,.... Still alluding to the deluge, when the earth broke in upon the waters under it, if Mr. Burnet's theory of the earth can be supported:

the earth is clean dissolved; it will be an entire dissolution, nothing shall remain; all these things, as Peter says, the heavens and the earth, and all in them, shall be dissolved, 2 Peter 3:11:

the earth is moved exceedingly; out of its place and form, and shall fall into its original chaos and confusion. The Targum is,

"moving, the earth shall be moved; agitating, the earth shall be agitated; breaking or dissolving, the earth shall be broken or dissolved;''

which seems to express the more gradual and natural dissolution of the world. These expressions are used, and repeated, to declare the certain and complete destruction of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The earth is utterly broken down - The effect as it were of an earthquake where everything is thrown into commotion and ruin.

The earth is moved exceedingly - Everything in this verse is intense and emphatic. The verbs are in the strongest form of emphasis: ‘By breaking, the land is broken;’ ‘by scattering, the land is scattered;’ ‘by commotion, the land is moved.’ The repetition also of the expression in the same sense three times, is a strong form of emphasis; and the whole passage is designed to denote the utter desolation and ruin that had come upon the land.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 24:19. The earth - "The land"] הארץ haarets, forte delendum ה he, ut ex praecedente ortum. Vid. seqq. - Secker. "Probably the ה he, in הארץ haarets, should be blotted out, as having arisen from the preceding."


 
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