Isaiah 24:19
17 Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
18 Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
20 The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
21 In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
- KJV
- The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
- WEB
- The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
- ASV
- The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.
- DARBY
- The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is violently moved.
- BLB
- The earth has been utterly broken apart; the earth has been utterly split open; the earth has been shaken violently.
- ÅB
- Jorden brister, ja, den brister; jorden revner, ja, den revner; jorden ristes, ja, den ristes.
- OTB
- Jorden er fullstendig knust, jorden er delt i stykker, jorden er voldsomt rystet.
- B1930
- Jorden brister, ja, den brister; jorden revner, ja, den revner; jorden rystes, ja, den rystes.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 34:4–10
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:1–5
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
Read in contextNahum 1:5
The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 11:6
and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to them.
Read in contextRevelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:23–28
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
Read in contextMatthew 24:3
While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:6
He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
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