Judgment now widens from single nations to the whole earth: Jehovah empties it, wastes it, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants, leveling every social pair, priest with people, master with servant, buyer with seller, creditor with debtor. The cause is stated: the earth is polluted because its dwellers "have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant," so the curse devours and few men are left. Wine, tabret, and harp fall silent; the waste city is shut up; survivors are as gleanings after an olive-tree is shaken, though some lift songs of "Glory to the righteous" from the sea and the isles. Fear, pit, and snare chase the fleeing; the windows on high open and the earth staggers like a drunkard, falling not to rise. In that day Jehovah punishes "the host of the high ones on high" and the kings of the earth, imprisoning them in the pit to be visited after many days, while sun and moon are shamed because Jehovah of hosts reigns in mount Zion and Jerusalem.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–13 The Earth Emptied and Turned Upside Down
B. 14–20 Songs from the Sea, but Woe to the Treacherous
C. 21–23 Kings Shut in Prison, the Moon Confounded

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Isaiah 423 verses
- Isaiah 42:10Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.
- Isaiah 42:15I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
- Isaiah 42:22But 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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Hosea 42 verses
- Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- Hosea 4:9And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
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Lamentations 52 verses
- Lamentations 5:12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
- Lamentations 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
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Isaiah 212 verses
- Isaiah 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
- Isaiah 21:17The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.
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Isaiah 332 verses
- Isaiah 33:1Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
- Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
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Isaiah 162 verses
- Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
- Isaiah 16:10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
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Revelation 182 verses
- Revelation 18:2And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
- Revelation 18:22And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
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Isaiah 342 verses
- Isaiah 34:2The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
- Isaiah 34:4All 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.
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