Isaiah 24

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¹Look! The Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people. ✦ ²Priests and laypeople, servants and masters, maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, bankers and debtors—none will be spared. ✦ ³The earth will be completely emptied and looted. The Lord has spoken! ✦ ⁴The earth mourns and dries up, and the land wastes away and withers. Even the greatest people on earth waste away. ✦ ⁵The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted God’s instructions, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant. ✦ ⁶Therefore, a curse consumes the earth. Its people must pay the price for their sin. They are destroyed by fire, and only a few are left alive. ✦ ⁷The grapevines waste away, and there is no new wine. All the merrymakers sigh and mourn. ✦ ⁸The cheerful sound of tambourines is stilled; the happy cries of celebration are heard no more. The melodious chords of the harp are silent. ✦ ⁹Gone are the joys of wine and song; alcoholic drink turns bitter in the mouth. ✦ ¹⁰The city writhes in chaos; every home is locked to keep out intruders. ✦ ¹¹Mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine. Joy has turned to gloom. Gladness has been banished from the land. ✦ ¹²The city is left in ruins, its gates battered down. ✦ ¹³Throughout the earth the story is the same— only a remnant is left, like the stray olives left on the tree or the few grapes left on the vine after harvest. ✦ ¹⁴But all who are left shout and sing for joy. Those in the west praise the Lord’s majesty. ✦ ¹⁵In eastern lands, give glory to the Lord. In the lands beyond the sea, praise the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ✦ ¹⁶We hear songs of praise from the ends of the earth, songs that give glory to the Righteous One! But my heart is heavy with grief. Weep for me, for I wither away. Deceit still prevails, and treachery is everywhere. ✦ ¹⁷Terror and traps and snares will be your lot, you people of the earth. ✦ ¹⁸Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap, and those who escape the trap will be caught in a snare. Destruction falls like rain from the heavens; the foundations of the earth shake. ✦ ¹⁹The earth has broken up. It has utterly collapsed; it is violently shaken. ✦ ²⁰The earth staggers like a drunk. It trembles like a tent in a storm. It falls and will not rise again, for the guilt of its rebellion is very heavy. ✦ ²¹In that day the Lord will punish the gods in the heavens and the proud rulers of the nations on earth. ✦ ²²They will be rounded up and put in prison. They will be shut up in prison and will finally be punished. ✦ ²³Then the glory of the moon will wane, and the brightness of the sun will fade, for the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will rule on Mount Zion. He will rule in great glory in Jerusalem, in the sight of all the leaders of his people. ✦

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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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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.

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