Isaiah 24:4

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Behold, the LORD lays waste to the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants- ²people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. ³The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word. ⁴The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.⁵The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth's dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive. ⁷The new wine dries up; the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. ⁸The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. ⁹They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. ¹⁰The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

Bible Verse Review
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mourneth: Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 33:9, Isaiah 64:6, Jeremiah 4:28, Jeremiah 12:4, Hosea 4:3

haughty people: Heb. height of the people, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:12

Reciprocal: Psalms 18:45 - strangers Isaiah 3:16 - are haughty Isaiah 13:11 - I will punish Jeremiah 14:2 - the gates Lamentations 1:4 - ways Joel 1:10 - field

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 24:20
And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

Genesis 24:23
"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

Genesis 28:2
"Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The earth mourneth, [and] fadeth away,.... It mourns, because of its inhabitants being destroyed; and it fades away, because stripped of its wealth and riches: so the kings of the earth, and merchants of it are represented as weeping and mourning at the destruction of Rome, because of its judgments, and the loss of its trade and riches, Revelation 18:9:

the world languisheth, [and] fadeth away: the inhabitants of it are like a sick man, that is so faint and feeble that he cannot stand, but totters and falls; and like the leaves of trees and flowers of the fields, whose strength and beauty are gone, and fade and fall:

the haughty people of the earth do languish: the kings and merchants of the earth before mentioned, who grow sick and faint through fear of what is coming upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The earth mourneth - The word ‘earth’ here, as in Isaiah 24:1, means the land of Judea, or that and so much of the adjacent countries as would be subject to the desolation described. The figure here is taken from flowers when they lose their beauty and languish; or when the plant that lacks moisture, or is cut down, loses its vigor and its vitality, and soon withers (compare the note at Isaiah 1:30; Isaiah 34:4; Psalms 1:3).

The world - (תבל têbêl). Literally, the inhabitable world, but used here as synonymous with the ‘land,’ and denoting the kingdoms of Judah and Israel (compare the note at Isaiah 13:11)

The haughty people - Margin, as in the Hebrew, ‘Height of the people.’ It denotes the great, the nobles, the princes of the land. The phrase is expressive of rank, not of their moral character.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 24:4. The world languisheth — The world is the same with the land; that is, the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, orbis Israeliticus. Isaiah 13:11.