Isaiah 24:4 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 24:4

The earth mourneth, and fadeth away ,.... It mourns, because of its inhabitants being destroyed; and it fades away, because stripped of its wealth and riches: so the kings of the earth, and merchants of it are represented as weeping and mourning at the destruction of Rome, because of its judgments, and the loss of its trade and riches, Revelation 18:9 , the world languisheth, and fadeth away : the inhabitants of it are like a sick man, that is so faint and feeble that he cannot... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:4

The world languisheth - The world is the same with the land; that is, the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, orbis Israeliticus. See note on Isaiah 13:11 ; (note). 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 24:4

The earth … fadeth away . As a flower that fades and withers up (comp. Isaiah 1:30 ; Isaiah 28:1 , Isaiah 28:4 ; Isaiah 34:4 , etc.; Psalms 1:3 ; Psalms 37:2 ). The world . Tabel has never any narrower sense than the entire "world," and must be regarded as fixing the meaning of arets in passages where (as here) the two are used as synonymous. The haughty people ; or, the high ones . All the great are brought down, and laid low, that "the Lord alone may be exalted in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:4

The future for haughty folk. "The haughty people of the earth do languish." The proud are an offence unto God. It is not the rich who find it so difficult to enter the kingdom of God; it is they who "trust in riches," who boast of their riches, who make their riches the occasion for despising others. I. THE FUTURE IS AGAINST THE HAUGHTY NATURALLY . Fortune tells upon precisely those things in which they pride themselves. The picture of trembling, suffering old age, given in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourneth - The word ‘earth’ here, as in Isaiah 24:1, means the land of Judea, or that and so much of the adjacent countries as would be subject to the desolation described. The figure here is taken from flowers when they lose their beauty and languish; or when the plant that lacks moisture, or is cut down, loses its vigor and its vitality, and soon withers (compare the note at Isaiah 1:30; Isaiah 34:4; Psalms 1:3).The world - (תבל têbêl). Literally, the inhabitable world, but used... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 24:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:4

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 24:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 24:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 24:4

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