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Isaiah 24

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1Behold, the LORD lays waste 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. ✦ 11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. ✦ 12The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble. ✦ 13So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest. ✦ 14They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD. ✦ 15Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea. ✦ 16From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery. ✦ 17Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth. ✦ 18Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. ✦ 19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently. ✦ 20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again. ✦ 21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below. ✦ 22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days. ✦ 23The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

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

Resources, by level

Lay

  • ★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overviews of every book of the Bible, plus themes and Hebrew/Greek word studies — the best visual on-ramp to any book. (Biblical-theology, broadly evangelical, not distinctly Reformed.)

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    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Seminary

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical

    The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Isaiah 24YouTube · Lay · Free

    Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.

  • 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

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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