Isaiah 24:1

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, Jehovah{H3068} maketh the earth{H776} empty,{H1238} and maketh it waste,{H1110} and turneth{H5753} it upside down,{H6440} and scattereth abroad{H6327} the inhabitants{H3427} thereof.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Behold, the LORD{H3068} maketh the earth{H776} empty{H1238}{(H8802)}, and maketh it waste{H1110}{(H8802)}, and turneth{H5753}{(H8765)} it upside down{H6440}, and scattereth abroad{H6327}{(H8689)} the inhabitants{H3427}{(H8802)} thereof.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Beholde, ye LORDE shal waist and plage the worlde, he shal make the face of the earth desolate, & scatre abrode ye inhabitours therof.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Beholde, the Lorde maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Beholde, the Lord maketh the earth waste and emptie, he turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitours therof.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned `it on' its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The Lord Will Judge the Earth Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 42:15 : 15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the abundance of all treasures.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion has come out of his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has left his place to turn your land into a waste. Your cities will be ruined, without inhabitants.
  • Jer 9:16 : 16 This is what the Lord of Hosts says: 'Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled wailing women to arrive.'
  • Ezek 5:2 : 2 A third of it you shall burn in the fire within the city when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take another third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And the final third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe a sword to chase after them.
  • Ezek 5:14 : 14 I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
  • Ezek 6:6 : 6 Wherever you dwell, your cities will become ruins, and your high places will be desolate. Your altars will be demolished and abandoned, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
  • Ezek 12:20 : 20 The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 24:11 : 11 Set the pot on its coals empty, so that it may become hot and its bronze burned. Its filthiness will melt away; its corrosion will be consumed.
  • Ezek 35:14 : 14 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
  • Deut 32:26 : 26 I said I would scatter them and erase their memory from mankind,
  • 2 Kgs 21:13 : 13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
  • Neh 1:8 : 8 Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
  • Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD protects the sojourners; he sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the way of the wicked.
  • Isa 1:7-9 : 7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers. 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city. 9 Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isa 2:19 : 19 People will go into caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, fleeing from the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to terrify the earth.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.
  • Isa 6:11-12 : 11 Then I said, "For how long, Lord?" And He replied, "Until cities lie ruined without inhabitants, houses are unoccupied, and the land is desolate and devastated. 12 The LORD will drive the people far away, and the abandonment in the land will be great.
  • Isa 7:17-25 : 17 The Lord will bring upon you, your people, and your father's house a time unlike any since Ephraim separated from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria. 18 On that day the Lord will whistle for the flies at the farthest streams of Egypt and for the bees in the land of Assyria. 19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines, in the crevices of the rocks, on all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering places. 20 On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head, the hair of your legs, and also take off your beard. 21 On that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two goats. 22 And because of the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds, for everyone left in the land will eat curds and honey. 23 On that day in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns. 24 With bow and arrow people will go there, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. 25 As for all the hills once cultivated with a hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and sheep run freely.
  • Isa 24:20 : 20 The earth staggers like a drunkard, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, never to rise again.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.
  • Isa 29:16 : 16 You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?
  • Isa 32:13-14 : 13 The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city. 14 For the palace will be deserted, the bustling city abandoned; the hill and the watchtower will become wastelands forever—a delight for wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks.
  • Isa 33:9 : 9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers. Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
  • Jer 40:15 : 15 Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah, saying, 'Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know about it. Why should he take your life, causing all the Jews who have gathered to you to scatter and leaving the remnant of Judah to perish?'
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep chased by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to gnaw at his bones was Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city rulers, shouting, 'These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here too.'
  • Jas 1:1 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings.
  • Zech 13:7-9 : 7 Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is My companion, declares the LORD of hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn My hand against the little ones. 8 In all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but one-third will be left in it. 9 This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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    2 It will be the same for the people as for the priest, the servant as for his master, the maid as for her mistress, the buyer as for the seller, the lender as for the borrower, the creditor as for the debtor.

    3 The earth will be utterly laid waste and completely plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word.

    4 The earth mourns and withers; the world fades and withers; the exalted of the earth languish.

    5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

    6 Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants bear the guilt. Therefore, the earth’s inhabitants are burned, and few people are left.

  • Isa 24:19-21
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    79%

    19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken.

    20 The earth staggers like a drunkard, it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, never to rise again.

    21 On that day, the Lord will punish the host of the heavens above and the kings of the earth below.

  • Isa 6:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 Then I said, "For how long, Lord?" And He replied, "Until cities lie ruined without inhabitants, houses are unoccupied, and the land is desolate and devastated.

    12 The LORD will drive the people far away, and the abandonment in the land will be great.

  • Jer 4:26-27
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    26 I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before the LORD, in the heat of His fierce anger.

    27 For this is what the LORD says: The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not bring it to complete destruction.

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    32 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a great storm is being stirred up from the ends of the earth.'

  • Jer 2:12
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    12 Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the LORD.

  • Ezek 12:20
    74%

    20 The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 12:11
    74%

    11 They have made it a desolation, and it mourns before me. The whole land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.

  • Isa 24:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 Only desolation is left in the city; the gate is battered into ruins.

    13 So it will be in the midst of the earth among the nations, like the shaking of an olive tree, as gleanings after the grape harvest is over.

  • Isa 13:9
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    9 See, the day of the LORD is coming—a cruel day with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and to destroy the sinners within it.

  • Isa 5:9
    74%

    9 The Lord of Hosts said in my hearing: Truly, many houses will become desolate—large and beautiful ones, without occupants.

  • Isa 1:7
    74%

    7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • Amos 9:5
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    5 The Lord, the God of Hosts, touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn. The entire land rises like the Nile and then sinks like the Nile of Egypt.

  • Lev 26:32
    74%

    32 I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

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    10 Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the abundance of all treasures.

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    24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

  • Isa 40:23
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    23 He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

  • Deut 28:24
    74%

    24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

  • Jer 51:29
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    29 The earth trembles and writhes because the Lord’s plans against Babylon stand firm—to make the land of Babylon a desolate wasteland, without an inhabitant.

  • Jer 4:23
    74%

    23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.

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    74%

    1 The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord, the world and all who live in it.

  • Jer 50:3
    73%

    3 For a nation has come against her from the north; it will make her land desolate. No one will live there—neither man nor beast—all will flee and be gone.

  • Isa 13:13
    73%

    13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, on the day of His fierce anger.

  • Mic 2:4
    73%

    4 On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • Jer 44:2
    73%

    2 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Look, they are a ruin today, without anyone living there.

  • Ezek 35:14
    73%

    14 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

  • Jer 25:37
    73%

    37 The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

  • Amos 8:8
    73%

    8 Shall not the land tremble on account of this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be tossed about and then sink again like the Nile of Egypt.

  • Zech 7:14
    73%

    14 'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'

  • Jer 45:4
    73%

    4 The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • Jer 22:29
    73%

    29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

  • Jer 44:22
    73%

    22 Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • Ps 46:8
    73%

    8 The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

  • Ezek 30:7
    73%

    7 They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie in ruins among ruined cities.

  • Jer 18:16
    73%

    16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn. All who pass by it are appalled and shake their heads.

  • Deut 29:24
    73%

    24 And they will answer, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

  • Joel 1:15
    73%

    15 Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • Isa 10:23
    73%

    23 For the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will execute the decreed destruction throughout the whole land.

  • Zeph 3:6
    72%

    6 I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have laid waste their streets, so that no one passes through. Their cities are destroyed; there is no one left—no inhabitant.

  • Job 15:28
    72%

    28 he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

  • Isa 26:21
    72%

    21 See, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; it will conceal its slain no longer.

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