6. earth—the land. burned—namely, with the consuming wrath of heaven: either internally, as in :- [ROSENMULLER]; or externally, the prophet has before his eyes the people being consumed with the withering dryness of their doomed land (so Joel 1:10; Joel 1:12), [MAURER]. read more
7. mourneth—because there are none to drink it [BARNES]. Rather, "is become vapid" [HORSLEY]. languisheth—because there are none to cultivate it now. read more
Coming worldwide judgment 24:1-6 read more
The preservation of God’s people within a world under divine judgment 24:1-20Isaiah revealed that the Lord’s people are at the center of His plans for the world (cf. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 21:10). He will preserve them even though He will judge sinful humanity. It is believers who will be living on the earth during the Lord’s devastation of this planet that are in view (Tribulation saints), not Christians living before the Tribulation who will be taken to heaven in the Rapture before the... read more
God has cursed sin (cf. Genesis 3:17-19), so when people sin they set His curse to work, and it devours the earth."Countries do not have sins, but people do. And countries suffer as a consequence of the guilt of their peoples." [Note: Watts, p. 317.] Those who sin are guilty before God and suffer the judgment due them. This is part of His covenant relationship with humankind (Genesis 2:17; cf. Deuteronomy 27-28). The only reason all do not perish is that God graciously extends mercy to some... read more
Wine, which people use to escape feeling the effects of sin, ultimately proves ineffective. Its source, the grapevine, decays (as a result of drought? cf. Revelation 6:5-6), and even the constitutionally lighthearted cannot escape groaning. read more
The effects of the coming judgment 24:7-20Isaiah expounded on the effects of human sin in a poem, which follows. read more
The Coming Judgment and Establishment of Jehovah’s KingdomThe subject is the overthrow of a power hostile to God’s people, with a description of the deliverance of the Jews and their future glory. The hostile power is not named, and the tone of the whole prophecy is so general that it is impossible to assign it to any occasion. With the anticipated overthrow of the enemy the prophet associates in thought Jehovah’s final judgment of the world. Most modern scholars assign this whole section to a... read more
2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused. 5. Defiled] i.e. desecrated by bloodshed (Numbers 35:33). Everlasting covenant] The phrase seems to allude to Genesis 9:16, the covenant with Noah and his sons. The bloodshed, upon which the great world-empires were founded, was a violation of this primitive covenant.7-9. The meaning is that every form of enjoyment has ceased. 10. Confusion] or, ’chaos’ (Genesis 1:2), so called because of the desolation awaiting it. No man, etc.] the... read more
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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 24:7-9
Isaiah 24:7-9. The new wine mourneth— In this fifth gradation we have a fine and pathetic description of a once flourishing land, entirely ruined and desolated by a destructive enemy. There is no difficulty in the words, nor in the fact, which is most notorious from history; for at this period, says the author of the book of Maccabees, there was so great mourning in Israel, that even every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage-chamber was in heaviness: Joy was taken... read more