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Isaiah 24

Isa. 24:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
maketh the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
empty
baqaq (Hebrew #1238)
to pour out, i.e. to empty, figuratively, to depopulate; by analogy, to spread out (as a fruitful vine)
KJV usage: (make) empty (out), fail, X utterly, make void.
Pronounce: baw-kah'
Origin: a primitive root
, and maketh it waste
balaq (Hebrew #1110)
to annihilate
KJV usage: (make) waste.
Pronounce: baw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root
, and δturneth
`avah (Hebrew #5753)
to crook, literally or figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly), trouble, X turn, do wickedly, do wrong.
Pronounce: aw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
it upside down
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
, and scattereth abroad
puwts (Hebrew #6327)
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
KJV usage: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Pronounce: poots
Origin: a primitive root
the inhabitants
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
thereof.
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perverteth the face thereof.

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-12:  The doleful judgments of God upon the land.
13-15:  A remnant shall joyfully praise him.
16-23:  God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom.
A.M. 3292.
B.C.712.
maketh the.
Isa. 1:7‑9• 7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
 8And the daughter of Zion is left, as a booth in a vineyard, as a night-lodge in a cucumber-garden, as a besieged city.
 9Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small residue, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. (Isa. 1:7‑9)
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Isa. 5:6• 6and I will make it a waste--it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. (Isa. 5:6)
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Isa. 6:11‑12• 11And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
 12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land. (Isa. 6:11‑12)
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Isa. 7:17‑25• 17Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days which have not come since the day when Ephraim turned away from Judah--even the king of Assyria.
 18And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;
 19and they shall come and settle all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorn-bushes, and on all the pastures.
 20In that day will the Lord, with a razor which is hired beyond the river, with the king of Assyria, shave the head and the hair of the feet, yea, the beard also will it take away.
 21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep,
 22and it shall come to pass, from the abundance of milk they shall give, that he shall eat butter; for every one that remaineth in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.
 23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:
 24with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
 25And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe--thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle. (Isa. 7:17‑25)
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Isa. 27:10• 10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs. (Isa. 27:10)
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Isa. 32:13‑14• 13Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
 14For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; (Isa. 32:13‑14)
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Isa. 42:15• 15I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. (Isa. 42:15)
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Jer. 4:7• 7The lion is come up from his thicket, the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without inhabitant. (Jer. 4:7)
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Ezek. 5:14• 14And I will make thee a waste and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. (Ezek. 5:14)
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Ezek. 6:6• 6In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. (Ezek. 6:6)
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Ezek. 12:20• 20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 12:20)
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Ezek. 24:11• 11Then set it empty upon its coals, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that its filthiness may be molten in it, and that its rust may be consumed. (Ezek. 24:11)
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Ezek. 35:14• 14Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee a desolation. (Ezek. 35:14)
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Nah. 2:10• 10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and writhing pain is in all loins, and all their faces grow pale. (Nah. 2:10)
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Luke 21:24• 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
turneth it upside down.
Heb. perverteth the face thereof.
Isa. 29:16• 16Oh your perverseness!--Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay, so that the work should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding? (Isa. 29:16)
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2 Kings 21:13• 13And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipeth a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down. (2 Kings 21:13)
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Psa. 146:9• 9Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. (Psa. 146:9)
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Acts 17:6• 6and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These men that have set the world in tumult, are come here also, (Acts 17:6)
scattereth.
Deut. 4:27• 27And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you. (Deut. 4:27)
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Deut. 28:64• 64And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and thou shalt there serve other gods, whom thou hast not known, neither thou nor thy fathers, wood and stone. (Deut. 28:64)
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Deut. 32:26• 26I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men, (Deut. 32:26)
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Neh. 1:8• 8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the peoples; (Neh. 1:8)
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Jer. 9:16• 16and will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them. (Jer. 9:16)
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Jer. 40:15• 15And Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will smite Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and no man shall know it: why should he take thy life, and all they of Judah who are gathered unto thee be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? (Jer. 40:15)
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Jer. 50:17• 17Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. (Jer. 50:17)
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Ezek. 5:2• 2A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them. (Ezek. 5:2)
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Zech. 13:7‑9• 7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, even against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered, and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.
 8And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
 9And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God. (Zech. 13:7‑9)
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James 1:1• 1James, bondman of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion, greeting. (James 1:1)
• The last of these cities, upon which a “burden” rested, being disposed of, the prophetic strain moves on to make known in a more general way what would be the state of things at the end of the age. (“Isaiah 24” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Behold, Jehovah maketh the landc empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

JND Translation Notes

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Erets, "earth." see 1 Sam. 2.8. The prophecy begins with the land of Israel, and the scene enlarges, embracing (ver. 4) the whole world, of which the "land" is the centre.