Isaiah 24:1-35:10 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

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 24:1

Maketh the earth empty - That is, will depopulate it, or take away its inhabitants, and its wealth. The word ‘earth’ here (ארץ 'ārets) is used evidently not to denote the whole world, but the land to which the prophet particularly refers - the land of Judea. It should have been translated the land (see Joel 1:2). It is possible, however, that the word here may be intended to include so much of the nations that surrounded Palestine as were allied with it, or as were connected with it in the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 24:1

Isaiah 24:1. Behold, &c. According to Vitringa, the third book of Isaiah’s prophecies begins with this chapter, and extends to the thirty-sixth, being divided into three discourses; the first comprehending four chapters, the second six, and the third two. The general subject of the book is the penal judgments denounced by God upon the disobedient Jews, and the enemies of the church, with the most ample promises to the true church. This first discourse, contained in this and the three... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-23

24:1-27:13 FINAL JUDGMENT AND SALVATIONThe judgment of various contemporary nations leads the prophet to consider God’s final great judgment on the world. Naturally, his illustrations are taken from the world that he knew, and the nations he mentions are those of his time, but the principles of judgment and salvation that he presents are those of the unchangeable God. They will find their fullest expression in God’s mighty triumph at the end of the world’s history.Some will mourn, others... read more

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

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

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 24:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 24:1

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:1-23

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