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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be completely emptied to destruction and completely plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Word;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Isaiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The earth will be stripped completely bareand will be totally plundered,for the Lord has spoken this message.
Hebrew Names Version
The eretz shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for the LORD has spoken this word.
King James Version
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
English Standard Version
The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the Lord has spoken this word.
New American Standard Bible
The earth will be completely laid waste and completely plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word.
New Century Version
The earth will be completely empty. The wealth will all be taken, because the Lord has commanded it.
Amplified Bible
The earth will be completely laid waste and utterly pillaged, for the LORD has spoken this word.
World English Bible
The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.
Berean Standard Bible
The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word.
Contemporary English Version
The earth will be stripped bare and left that way. This is what the Lord has promised.
Complete Jewish Bible
The land will be completely stripped, completely plundered, for Adonai has spoken this word.
Darby Translation
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
Easy-to-Read Version
Everyone will be forced out of the land. All the wealth will be taken. This will happen because the Lord commanded it.
George Lamsa Translation
The land shall be utterly destroyed and utterly spoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word.
Good News Translation
The earth will lie shattered and ruined. The Lord has spoken and it will be done.
Lexham English Bible
The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.
Literal Translation
The land shall completely be emptied and utterly stripped, for Jehovah has spoken this Word.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee miserably shal ye worlde be waysted & clene destroyed. For ye LORDE hath so determed in himself.
American Standard Version
The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
Bible in Basic English
The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word.
King James Version (1611)
The land shall be vtterly emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The lande shalbe cleane wasted and vtterly spoyled: for so the Lorde hath spoken.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.
English Revised Version
The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bi distriyng the lond schal be distried, and schal be maad nakid by rauyschyng; for whi the Lord spak this word.
Update Bible Version
The earth shall be completely emptied, and completely laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
Webster's Bible Translation
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
New English Translation
The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.
New King James Version
The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, For the LORD has spoken this word.
New Living Translation
The earth will be completely emptied and looted. The Lord has spoken!
New Life Bible
All the earth will be laid waste and destroyed, for the Lord has said this.
New Revised Standard
The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the Lord has spoken this word.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Emptied - emptied - shall be the earth yea pillaged - pillaged, - For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word.
Douay-Rheims Bible
With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Revised Standard Version
The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word.
Young's Literal Translation
Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word.

Contextual Overview

1Behold, Yahweh empties the earth to destruction, eviscerates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants. 2And the people will be like the priest, the male slave like his master, the female slave like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. 3The earth will be completely emptied to destruction and completely plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word. 4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the exalted of the people of the earth languish. 5The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they trespassed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who inhabit it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men remain. 7The new wine mourns;The vine languishes;All the glad of heart sigh. 8The joy of tambourines ceases;The rumbling of those exulting stops;The joy of the harp ceases. 9They do not drink wine with song;Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. 10The city of chaos is broken down;Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall: Isaiah 24:1, Isaiah 6:11, Leviticus 26:30-35, Deuteronomy 29:23, Deuteronomy 29:28, 2 Chronicles 36:21, Ezekiel 36:4

the Lord: Isaiah 21:17, Isaiah 22:25, Jeremiah 13:15, Micah 4:4

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:27 - The Jeremiah 6:21 - fathers Jeremiah 48:11 - emptied Jeremiah 52:27 - Thus Ezekiel 12:20 - General Ezekiel 15:8 - I will Joel 1:10 - field Micah 2:4 - We Micah 7:13 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 14:19
Then he blessed him and said,"Blessed be Abram of God Most High,Possessor of heaven and earth;
Genesis 14:22
Then Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to Yahweh God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 21:23
so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the lovingkindness that I have shown you, you shall show me and the land in which you have sojourned."
Genesis 24:3
and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,
Genesis 24:4
but you will go to my land and to my kin, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:14
now may it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, ‘Drink, and I will give water to your camels to drink also'—may she be the one whom You have decided for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master."
Genesis 24:15
And before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor, was coming out with her jar on her shoulder.
Genesis 24:17
Then the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Revelation 18:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land - Hebrew, ‘The earth,’ as in Isaiah 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 Isaiah 24:1, to show the absolute certainty of that which was threatened.


 
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