Isaiah 24:10

Isaiah described the world as a city marked by meaninglessness (Heb. tohu, Genesis 1:2), like the earth before Creation (cf. Genesis 11:1-9; Jeremiah 4:23). That the city is the entire earth is clear. The word "earth" occurs 16 times in this section of the text (Isaiah 24:1-20). A spirit of fear pervades this city. Modern existentialist writers have done a good job of articulating the meaninglessness of life without God that Isaiah also described here. [Note: See, for example, Albert Camus, The Plague.]