Isaiah 24

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¹Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. ✦ ²It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, 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. ✦ ³The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. ✦ ⁴The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. ✦ ⁵The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. ✦ ⁶Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. ✦ ⁷The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. ✦ ⁸The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. ✦ ⁹They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. ✦ ¹⁰The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. ✦ ¹¹There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. ✦ ¹²The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. ✦ ¹³For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done. ✦ ¹⁴These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea. ✦ ¹⁵Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! ✦ ¹⁶From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. ✦ ¹⁷Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth. ✦ ¹⁸It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. ✦ ¹⁹The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. ✦ ²⁰The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again. ✦ ²¹It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. ✦ ²²They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited. ✦ ²³Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Isa 5 ·7 Isa 24 ·6 Isa 42 ·6 Isa 1 ·6 Isa 10 ·6 Isa 32 ·5 Isa 25 ·4 Rev 19 ·4

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 24 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
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SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 24David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Isaiah 24Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
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