Isaiah 24
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Isaiah’s Apocalypse
1 # 24:1 Isaiah 24–27 is known as Isaiah’s Apocalypse because it contains eschatological prophecies that are also found in the book of Revelation. Behold! The Lord Yahweh is about to devastate the earth # 24:1 Or “land.” This is the Hebrew word ’erets, used sixteen times in chapter 24. It can be translated “land,” “earth,” or “world.” The context would seem to describe a global judgment. Isaiah prophesied about eleven different nations in chapters 13–23, but here he described a judgment upon the whole world.
and make it desolate.
He will mar its surface and scatter the inhabitants.
2Everyone will experience the same fate—
priests and people, masters and slaves,
their maids and mistresses, buyers and sellers,
lenders and borrowers, rich and poor. # 24:2 Or “debtor and creditor.” See Rev. 6:15.
3The earth will be utterly devastated and ruined,
for the Lord Yahweh has spoken this word!
4The ground itself mourns # 24:4 The Hebrew homonym can mean the ground “mourns [over the sin of its inhabitants]” or “dries up [with drought].” This is a powerful play on words in the Hebrew. and withers;
the soil languishes over the sins of its people,
and the wealthy elite wither and languish.
5The people have polluted the earth beneath their feet
by disobeying laws, violating truth, # 24:5 Or “moving past statutes.” See Mal. 2:5–7.
and breaking the ancient, everlasting covenant. # 24:5 See Rom. 1:18–32.
6Therefore a curse devours the earth;
its people suffer under their guilt,
causing earth’s inhabitants to dwindle, # 24:6 Or “burn up.” The Hebrew homonym kharah can mean “to diminish” or “to burn.”
and their number is reduced to so few.
7The new wine dries up, the vine withers,
and all the party-goers groan with disappointment.
8The joyful mirth of the tambourines is stilled,
the jubilant noise of the revelers is ended,
and the happy sound of the harp falls silent.
9No more wine and song!
Hard liquor has become bitter to those who drink it.
10The city lies in chaos, and no one can enter.
11Riots break out because there is no wine.
The sun has set on their gladness and joy;
celebrations have disappeared from the earth.
12The city is left desolate with her gates battered down.
13As an olive tree is shaken clean of its olives
and a grapevine picked clean of its grapes,
so will be the fate of the nations.
The Song of the Remnant
14The remnant # 24:14 Or “They.” Verses 14–16 are some of the more difficult verses to translate in Isaiah due to a number of textual variants. lifts up its voice with a joyful shout.
From the west they praise the majesty of the Lord Yahweh,
15and in the east # 24:15 Or “in the lights [fires],” a possible metaphor for the sunrise (the east). they give glory to the Lord God!
The coastlands magnify the name of Yahweh,
the Lord God of Israel!
16From all over the world we hear their songs of praise—
songs of glory and beauty to the Righteous One!
But I said, “I feel I’m wasting away.
I’m doomed; I’m wasting away.”
With deception, deceivers deceive!
With treachery, the treacherous betray! # 24:16 These lines contain a notable wordplay, using five Hebrew words with the identical triliteral root, bgd.
17Terror, pit, and trap are waiting for you, inhabitants of the earth.
18The one who flees from the report of terror will fall into the pit.
And whoever crawls out of the pit will be caught by the trap.
Heaven’s floodgates opened and earth’s foundations trembled.
19The earth is breaking, breaking!
The earth is crumbling, crumbling!
The earth is tottering, tottering!
20The earth staggers like a drunkard,
as a hut sways in a storm.
Its sin lies heavy upon it; it falls to rise no more.
The Lord Almighty Will Reign
21In that day, the Lord Yahweh will punish heaven’s host # 24:21 In this context, heaven’s host becomes a figure of speech for dark powers that operate in rebellion to God. See Eph. 6:10–14; Col. 2:15.
and the kings of the earth.
22They will be gathered together
and locked up in a prison like prisoners in a pit,
and after many days, they will be punished. # 24:22 Or “they will be remembered.”
23Then the sun and moon will hang their heads in shame,
for Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, will reign! # 24:23 When God is unveiled in his glory-light, the sun and moon are nothing compared to him.
He will manifest his glory on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
before all her elders!
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1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. 2It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. 3The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. 4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. 5The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left. 7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. 8The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. 9They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. 10The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. 12The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. 13For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
14These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea. 15Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea! 16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous!
But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously. 17Fear, the pit, and the snare are on you who inhabit the earth. 18It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently. 20The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
21It will happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. 22They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited. 23Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.
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