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Isaiah 24:22

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.

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

23 The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.

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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.

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BSB
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
KJV
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
WEB
They 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.
ASV
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
DARBY
And they shall be brought together, [as] an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
BLB
And they will be gathered together—a gathering of bound ones in the pit, and they will be shut up in the prison, and after a multitude of days they will be punished.
ÅB
og de skal samles sammen som fanger i hulen og settes fast i fengslet, og langt om lenge skal de få sin straff.
OTB
De vil bli samlet sammen som fanger i en grop; de vil bli stengt inne i fengsel, og etter mange dager vil de bli straffet.
B1930
og de skal samles sammen som fanger i hulen og settes fast i fengslet, og langt om lenge skal de få sin straff.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Zechariah 9:11

    As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

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  • Isaiah 42:22

    But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

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  • Jeremiah 38:6–13

    So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

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  • Ezekiel 38:8

    After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.

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  • Joshua 10:16–17

    Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

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  • Isaiah 10:4

    Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

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  • Isaiah 24:17

    Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.

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  • Isaiah 2:19

    Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

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