Verse 1

Isaiah 24:1

Geneva Bible

1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִנֵּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה בּוֹקֵ֥ק הָ/אָ֖רֶץ וּ/בֽוֹלְקָ֑/הּ וְ/עִוָּ֣ה פָנֶ֔י/הָ וְ/הֵפִ֖יץ יֹשְׁבֶֽי/הָ
English Translation
Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and devastate it; He will distort its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
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Chapter 24 Context
1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and...
2 And there shalbe like people, like Priest, and like seruaunt, like master, like maide, like mistress... Focus ↗
3 The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde. Focus ↗
4 The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth... Focus ↗
5 The earth also deceiueth, because of the inhabitantes thereof: for they transgressed the lawes: they... Focus ↗
6 Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore th... Focus ↗
7 The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne. Focus ↗
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth. Focus ↗
9 They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it. Focus ↗
10 The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in. Focus ↗
11 There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away. Focus ↗
12 In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Focus ↗
13 Surely thus shall it bee in the middes of the earth, among the people, as the shaking of an oliue tr... Focus ↗
14 They shall lift vp their voyce: they shall shout for the magnificence of the Lord: they shall reioyc... Focus ↗
15 Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lord God (Elohim) of Israel, in t... Focus ↗
16 From the vttermost part of the earth wee haue heard praises, euen glory to the iust, and I sayd, My... Focus ↗
17 Feare, and the pitte, and the snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. Focus ↗
18 And hee that fleeth from the noyse of the feare, shall fall into the pit: and he that commeth vp out... Focus ↗
19 The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth is mooued exceedingly. Focus ↗
20 The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the ini... Focus ↗
21 And in that day shall the Lord visite the hoste aboue that is on hie, euen the Kinges of the world t... Focus ↗
22 And they shall be gathered together, as the prisoners in the pit: and they shall be shut vp in the p... Focus ↗
23 Then the moone shall be abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in moun... Focus ↗