Isaiah 24

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¹Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants. ✦ ²And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the female servant like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. ✦ ³The earth will be completely laid waste and completely plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word. ✦ ⁴The earth dries up and crumbles away, the mainland dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth dwindle. ✦ ⁵The earth is also defiled by its inhabitants, for they violated laws, altered statutes, and broke the everlasting covenant. ✦ ⁶Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer for their guilt. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth decrease in number, and few people are left. ✦ ⁷¶The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the joyful-hearted sigh. ✦ ⁸The joy of tambourines ceases, The noise of revelers stops, The joy of the harp ceases. ✦ ⁹They do not drink wine with song; Intoxicating drink is bitter to those who drink it. ✦ ¹⁰The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter. ✦ ¹¹There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The joy of the earth is banished. ✦ ¹²Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins. ✦ ¹³For so it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over. ✦ ¹⁴They raise their voices, they shout for joy; They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the Lord. ✦ ¹⁵Therefore glorify the Lord in the east, The name of the Lord, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea. ✦ ¹⁶From the ends of the earth we hear songs: “Glory to the Righteous One,” But I say, “I am finished! I am finished! Woe to me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously.” ✦ ¹⁷Terror and pit and snare Confront you, you inhabitant of the earth. ✦ ¹⁸Then it will be that the one who flees the sound of terror will fall into the pit, And the one who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake. ✦ ¹⁹The earth is broken apart, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently. ✦ ²⁰The earth trembles like a heavy drinker And sways like a hut, For its wrongdoing is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again. ✦ ²¹So it will happen on that day, That the Lord will punish the rebellious angels of heaven on high, And the kings of the earth on earth. ✦ ²²They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished. ✦ ²³Then the moon will be ashamed and the sun be put to shame, For the Lord of armies will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory will be before His elders. ✦

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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.

Seminary

★ 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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VideoWatch teaching on Isaiah 24YouTube · Lay · Free
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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
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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