Isaiah 24:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָבְלָ֤ה נָֽבְלָה֙ הָאָ֔רֶץ אֻמְלְלָ֥ה נָבְלָ֖ה תֵּבֵ֑ל אֻמְלָ֖לוּ מְר֥וֹם עַם־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

ʾābəlāh nābəlāh the-ʾāreṣ ʾuməlelāh nābəlāh tēbēl ʾumləlû mərôm ʿam-the-ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

*ʾābəlāh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - mourns
*nābəlāh*: Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - withers/fades
*ʾāreṣ*: common noun, feminine singular with definite article - the earth/land
*ʾuməlelāh*: Pulal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - languishes/weakens
*tēbēl*: common noun, feminine singular - world/habitable earth
*ʾumləlû*: Pulal perfect, 3rd person common plural - languish/are weakened
*mərôm*: common noun, masculine singular construct - height/exalted ones
*ʿam*: common noun, masculine singular construct - people of

Word Meanings

*ʾābəlāh*: mourns/laments/grieves
*nābəlāh*: withers/fades/decays
*ʾuməlelāh*: languishes/weakens/droops
*tēbēl*: world/habitable earth/inhabited land
*ʾumləlû*: languish/are weakened/droop
*mərôm*: height/exalted ones/lofty people
*ʿam-hāʾāreṣ*: people of the land/common people/prominent people

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Referenced Verses

Isa 33:9 : 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.
Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Isa 2:11-12 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
Isa 3:26 : 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isa 28:1 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Isa 64:6 : 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Jer 4:28 : 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jer 12:4 : 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

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