Isaiah 24 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Impending Judgment on the Earth

The Coming Judgment of the Earth

Isa 24:1Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.

Isa 24:2

Isa 24:2And it shall 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 lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Isa 24:3

Isa 24:3The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the LORD has spoken this word.

Isa 24:4

Isa 24:4The earth mourns and fades away,
The world languishes and fades away;
The haughty people of the earth languish.

Isa 24:5

Isa 24:5The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the everlasting covenant.

Isa 24:6

Isa 24:6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
And few men are left.

Isa 24:7

Isa 24:7The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
All the merry-hearted sigh.

Isa 24:8

Isa 24:8The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.

Isa 24:9

Isa 24:9They shall not drink wine with a song;
Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Isa 24:10

Isa 24:10The city of confusion is broken down;
Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.

Isa 24:11

Isa 24:11There is a cry for wine in the streets,
All joy is darkened,
The mirth of the land is gone.

Isa 24:12

Isa 24:12In the city desolation is left,
And the gate is stricken with destruction.

Isa 24:13

Isa 24:13When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people,
It shall be like the shaking of an olive tree,
Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.

Isa 24:14

Isa 24:14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing;
For the majesty of the LORD
They shall cry aloud from the sea.

Isa 24:15

Isa 24:15Therefore glorify the LORD in the dawning light,
The name of the LORD God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.

Isa 24:16

Isa 24:16From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
“Glory to the righteous!”
But I said, “I am ruined, ruined!
Woe to me!
The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,
Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”

Isa 24:17

Isa 24:17Fear and the pit and the snare
Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

Isa 24:18

Isa 24:18And it shall be
That he who flees from the noise of the fear
Shall fall into the pit,
And he who comes up from the midst of the pit
Shall be caught in the snare;
For the windows from on high are open,
And the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Isa 24:19

Isa 24:19The earth is violently broken,
The earth is split open,
The earth is shaken exceedingly.

Isa 24:20

Isa 24:20The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
And shall totter like a hut;
Its transgression shall be heavy upon it,
And it will fall, and not rise again.

Isa 24:21

Isa 24:21It shall come to pass in that day
That the LORD will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth the kings of the earth.

Isa 24:22

Isa 24:22They will be gathered together,
As prisoners are gathered in the pit,
And will be shut up in the prison;
After many days they will be punished.

Isa 24:23

Isa 24:23Then the moon will be disgraced
And the sun ashamed;
For the LORD of hosts will reign
On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
And before His elders, gloriously.

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