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Isaiah 24:3

The earth shall be completely emptied, and completely laid waste; 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.
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.
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

1 Look, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3 The earth shall be completely emptied, and completely laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few of common man are left. 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of those that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those that drink it. 10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come 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
that the sons of God saw the daughters of man that they were fair; and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man, and they bore [children] to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 14:19
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
Genesis 14:22
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land wherein you have sojourned.
Genesis 24:3
And I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 24:4
But you shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
Genesis 24:14
And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down your pitcher, I pray you, that I may drink. And she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels to drink also. Let the same be she that you have appointed for your slave Isaac. And thereby shall I know that you have shown kindness to my master.
Genesis 24:15
And it came to pass, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
Genesis 24:17
And the slave ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray you, a little water from your 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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