Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
KJV
Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram : et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem ejus, et disperget habitatores ejus.
Vulgate
Ἰδοὺ Κύριος καταφθείρει τὴν οἰκουμένην, καὶ ἐρημώσει αὐτὴν καὶ ἀνακαλύψει τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῆς καὶ διασπερεῖ τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας ἐν αὐτῇ.
LXX
Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
ASV
הִנֵּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה בּוֹקֵ֥ק הָ/אָ֖רֶץ וּ/בֽוֹלְקָ֑/הּ וְ/עִוָּ֣ה פָנֶ֔י/הָ וְ/הֵפִ֖יץ יֹשְׁבֶֽי/הָ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:29 — But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
- 2Kgs 21:13 — And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
- Deut 4:26 — I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shal
- Deut 4:27 — And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
- Deut 28:64 — And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and
- Deut 32:26 — I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
- Ezek 5:2 — Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shal
- Ezek 5:14 — Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
- Ezek 6:6 — In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your
- Ezek 7:12 — The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
- Ezek 12:20 — And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 20:47 — And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flam
- Ezek 35:14 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
- Isa 1:7 — Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isa 2:19 — And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
- Isa 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Isa 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Isa 6:11 — Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
- Isa 6:11 — Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
- Isa 7:17 — The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
- Isa 24:3 — The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
- Isa 24:19 — The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
- Isa 24:20 — The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
- Isa 27:10 — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
- Isa 28:22 — Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
- Isa 29:16 — Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He ha
- Isa 32:13 — Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
- Isa 33:9 — The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
- Isa 42:15 — I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
- Jer 9:16 — I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
- Jer 28:8 — The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
- Jer 51:34 — Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cas
- Job 9:6 — Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
- Luke 21:24 — And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
- Nah 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- Nah 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- Neh 1:8 — Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
- Ps 46:8 — Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
- Ps 79:7 — For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
- Ps 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.