Isaiah 24:1-2 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-12

It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great variety of expressions to the same purport, and all aggravating. I. The earth is stripped of all its ornaments and looks as if it were taken off its basis; it is made empty and waste (Isa. 24:1), as if it were reduced to its first chaos, Tohu and Bohu, nothing but confusion and emptiness again (Gen.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty ,.... Some, by the "earth", only understand the land of Israel or Judea, and interpret the prophecy of the captivity of the ten tribes by Shalmaneser, as Kimchi, and other Jewish writers; and others, of the destruction of the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar; but some take in along with them the neighbouring nations who suffered by the same princes at the same time. Vitringa interprets the whole of the times of the Maccabees, as also the three following chapters... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest ,.... Or, "prince" F16 ככהן "ac praesidi", Junius & Tremellius; "sic gubernator", Piscator. ; no order or rank of men will fare better than another; their dignity, in things civil or ecclesiastical, will not secure them from ruin; it will be no better with princes and priests than the common people; they shall all alike share in the common destruction. Not Jeroboam's priests, but rather the Romish priests, are here meant,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty . Several critics (Lowth, Ewald, Gesenius, Knobel) prefer to render, "maketh the land empty;" but the broader view, which is maintained by Rosenmüller, Kay, Cheyne, and others, seems preferable. The mention of "the world" in Isaiah 24:4 , and of "the-kings of the earth" in Isaiah 24:21 , implies a wider field of survey than the Holy Land. Of course the expression, "maketh empty," is rhetorical, some remarkable, but not complete, depopulation... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-12

The charge and the calamity. These words give a vivid and a terrible picture of calamity that should befall the people of God. It is suitably called "the curse" ( Isaiah 24:6 ), for it should prove an evil of the severest kind; and it would be other than a national misfortune—it would be the penalty of sin: therefore , because of the sins charged against the nation ( Isaiah 24:5 ), these multiplied sorrows would overtake and overwhelm them; "for the Lord hath spoken this word" ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-20

SECTION VI . GOD 'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). GOD 'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT LARGE . From special denunciations of woe upon particular nations—Babylon, Assyria, Philistia, Moab, Syria of Damascus, Egypt and Ethiopia, Arabia, Judea, Tyre—the prophet passes to denunciations of a broader character, involving the future of the whole world. This section of his work extends from the commencement of Isaiah 24:1-23 . to the conclusion of ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-20

God's final judgment upon the earth. In striking contrast with man's self-complacent theories of continual progress and improvement in the world, resulting in something like the final perfection of our race, is God's prophetic announcement that, as the years roll on, mankind will go from bad to worse, plunge deeper and deeper into wickedness, bring calamity after calamity upon themselves, and finally so provoke him that he will destroy the very earth itself as " defiled ' by its... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-23

Prophecy of judgment. The difficulties, historically considered, of this chapter must be left to the exegete. We concern ourselves with the larger sense it contains of a prophecy of a judgment upon the whole world. I. THE APPROACHING DESOLATION . ( Isaiah 24:1-3 .) The figures of emptying , draining , are employed to denote the utter depopulation and impoverishment of the earth; also that of turning upside down , to denote disorganization and demoralization in every civil... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:2

It shall be, as with the people, so with the priest , etc. There shall be "no respect of persons"—no favor shown to men of any particular rank or station. All shall suffer equally. The author is obliged to take as examples distinctions of rank known to him; but he carefully selects such as are of almost universal occurrence. There was scarcely any nation of antiquity in which there were not "priests and people," "masters and slaves," "buyers and sellers," "lenders and borrowers," "takers and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:2

Common burden-bearing. The figure of calamity given in Isaiah 24:1 is that of emptying a vessel by turning it upside down. In national calamities all classes share alike. There is indiscriminate ruin. No distinction is made between the different ranks and conditions of life, though the idle poor are always the first to suffer. Illustrations may be taken from the great Lancashire cotton famine; or from times of trade depression which; as year after year passes on, reaches every class and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:2

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