Isaiah 24:4 - Exposition

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 that day" (cf. Isaiah 2:11-17 ).