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Douay-Rheims Bible

Isaiah 24:3

With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath 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.
Legacy Standard Bible
The earth will be completely emptied to destruction and completely plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.
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.
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

1 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth. 3 With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened. 5 And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. 7 The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed. 8 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10 The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.

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
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.
Genesis 6:4
Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Genesis 14:19
Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth.
Genesis 14:22
And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 21:23
Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.
Genesis 24:3
That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis 24:4
But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:14
Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness to my master.
Genesis 24:15
He had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:
Genesis 24:17
And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.

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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