Isaiah 24:19
in Isaiah 24The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.
KJV
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
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This verse in Isaiah 24
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThe earth is utterly broken down,.... Still alluding to the deluge, when the earth broke in upon the waters under it, if Mr. Burnet's theory of the earth can be supported: the earth is clean dissolved; it will be an entire dissolution, nothing shall remain; all these things, as Peter says, the heavens and the earth, and all in them, shall be dissolved, 2Pe 3:11, the earth is moved exceedingly; out of its place and form, and shall fall into its original chaos and confusion.
This site's exposition
Fear, and the pit, and the snare
on Isaiah 24:17-20
The three-fold trap, fear, and the pit, and the snare, upon every inhabitant of the earth, is close to the formula Jeremiah later applies to Moab, a shared oracle of inescapable judgment, one danger leading straight into the next with no path around it. He that fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit, and he that cometh up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare, judgment layered so that escaping one stage only delivers a man to the next. The windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth shake, cosmic language matching the scope already named at the chapter's opening, the earth reeling to and fro like a drunkard and removed like a cottage. It shall fall, and not rise again, the chapter's flattest sentence, judgment total enough that the bench reads no recovery written into these particular verses.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 19, 20.) For the gates from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth will be shaken. The earth will be crushed to pieces, shattered, and shaken. It will be thrown into agitation like a drunkard, and it will be taken away like a temporary shelter, and its own iniquity will weigh it down, and it will fall and not be able to rise again.
The Medieval Church1 voice
577. Third, he shows the impossibility of reparation under a threefold similitude, namely, of divided things, which are not restored: breaking, as to division into large parts, crushing, as to division into small parts: behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
It is the transgression thereof that shall be heavy upon it. Note, Sin is a burden to the whole creation; it is a heavy burden, a burden under which it groans now and will sink at last. Sin is the ruin of states, and kingdoms, and families; they fall under the weight of that talent of lead, Zech. v. 7, 8 .
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The earth “The land” - הארץ haarets, forte delendum ה he, ut ex praecedente ortum. Vid. seqq. - Secker. “Probably the ה he, in הארץ haarets, should be blotted out, as having arisen from the preceding.”
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The earth is utterly broken down - The effect as it were of an earthquake where everything is thrown into commotion and ruin. The earth is moved exceedingly - Everything in this verse is intense and emphatic.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רֹ֥עָה | roah | utterly <broken> | H7489 → | 107 times |
| הִֽתְרֹעֲעָ֖ה | hitroaah | it has been broken | H7489 → | 107 times |
| הָאָ֑רֶץ | haaretz | the earth | H776 → | 2504 times |
| פּ֤וֹר | por | utterly <split> | H6565 → | 50 times |
| הִֽתְפּוֹרְרָה֙ | hitporah | it has been split through | H6565 → | 50 times |
| אֶ֔רֶץ | ʾeretz | [the] earth | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מ֥וֹט | mot | certainly <to shake> | H4131 → | 38 times |
| הִֽתְמוֹטְטָ֖ה | hitmotah | it has been shaken | H4131 → | 38 times |
| אָֽרֶץ׃ | ʾaretz | [the] earth | H776 → | 2504 times |
רֹ֥עָהutterly <broken>
roahH7489 →107 times
הִֽתְרֹעֲעָ֖הit has been broken
hitroaahH7489 →107 times
הָאָ֑רֶץthe earth
haaretzH776 →2504 times
פּ֤וֹרutterly <split>
porH6565 →50 times
הִֽתְפּוֹרְרָה֙it has been split through
hitporahH6565 →50 times
אֶ֔רֶץ[the] earth
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
מ֥וֹטcertainly <to shake>
motH4131 →38 times
הִֽתְמוֹטְטָ֖הit has been shaken
hitmotahH4131 →38 times
אָֽרֶץ׃[the] earth
ʾaretzH776 →2504 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Revelation 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
it leads to
- Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- 2 Peter 3:7
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Matthew 25:31
When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.
- Daniel 2:35
Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found.…
- Romans 2:5
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- Revelation 21:1
Through
Deuteronomy 11:6and what He did in the midst of all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents,…
it leads to
- Numbers 26:9–10
and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah who rebelled against the…
- Psalms 106:17
The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.
- Numbers 26:9–10
Through
Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all its dwellers.
it leads to
- Micah 1:4
The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
- Micah 1:4
About Isaiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Joseph Addison Alexander, Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.