Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 24:1
The land — Of Canaan. Waste — He will shortly make it waste, first by the Assyrians, and then by the Chaldeans. Turneth — Brings it into great disorder and confusion.
The land — Of Canaan. Waste — He will shortly make it waste, first by the Assyrians, and then by the Chaldeans. Turneth — Brings it into great disorder and confusion.
CHAPTER XXIV _Dreadful judgments impending over the people of God_, 1-4. _Particular enumeration of the horrid impieties which provoked_ _the Divine vengeance_, 5, 6. _Great political wretchedness...
MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY - That is, will depopulate it, or take away its inhabitants, and its wealth. The word ‘earth’ here (ארץ _'ārets_) is used evidently not to denote the whole world, but the land...
CHAPTER 24 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Jehovah dealing with the earth(Isaiah 24:1)_ 2. _All classes affected (Isaiah 24:2)_ 3. _The Desolations described (Isaiah 24:3)_ 4. The Jewish Remnant during the tr...
ISAIAH 24. A WORLD-WIDE JUDGMENT FORETOLD. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted, it has not already happened. It will involve all in o...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. EARTH. Hebrew ha- _'arez_. Occurs sixteen times in this chapter. Rendered "land" in verses: Isaiah 24:3; Isaiah 24:11; Isai
briefly announce the theme of the whole discourse, a final and universal judgment on the world....
_Behold, the Lord maketh … waste_ The construction in Heb. is the _fut. instans_, "is about to empty." The metaphor of the verse (cf. Nahum 2:10) is exceedingly expressive, the words being "those whic...
BEHOLD, &C.— The first section of the first discourse, contained, in this chapter, is twofold: the first member, which properly explains the judgments of God upon a corrupt people, extends to the midd...
IV. JUDAH AND JUDGMENT - Chapter S 24 - 27 A. JUDGMENT ON JUDAH'S ENEMIES, CHAPTER 24 1. JUDGMENT IS SURE TEXT: Isaiah 24:1-6 1 Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turn...
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY - "the earth;" not m...
24:1 land (c-5) _ Erets_ , 'earth.' see 1 Samuel 2:8 . The prophecy begins with the land of Israel, and the scene enlarges, embracing (ver. 4) the whole world, of which the 'land' is the centre....
2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused....
The words describe how the *Lord will ruin the whole earth....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 24 GOD WILL DESTROY THE EARTH V1 Listen carefully! The *Lord intends to empty the la...
הִנֵּ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה בֹּוקֵ֥ק הָ אָ֖רֶץ וּ בֹֽולְק
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
THE DESOLATION OF A GUILTY WORLD Isaiah 24:1-13 This and the three following Chapter s form a single prophecy, describing the calamities about to desolate the land, because the inhabitants _had trans...
In these last Chapter s of the second circle, the prophet takes a still wider outlook. He sees how all the world is under the government of God. In this chapter the prophet states the fact in general...
Behold, the LORD maketh the (a) earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants. (a) This prophecy is as a conclusion of that which has been threat...
_Earth. After the ten preceding threats, the prophet denounces destruction to the whole world, (Worthington) at the day of judgment; though he may also allude to the desolation of the promised land, a...
Some of the old copies read the word earth, land, and confine the sorrows to the house of Judah. But it should seem from what follows in the after-parts of the chapter, where the same subject is spoke...
CONTENTS Solemn judgments are here set forth, in a general way. Towards the close of the chapter, the subject brightens in the prospect of the coming of Christ....
1._Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty. _This prophecy, so far as I can judge, is the conclusion of all the descriptions that have been given from the thirteenth chapter downwards, in which Isaiah...
Chapter 24 sets before us the overturning of everything in the earth. The land of Israel is first in view. But there all the elements of all the systems of this world will be gathered together and jud...
BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY,.... Some, by the "earth", only understand the land of Israel or Judea, and interpret the prophecy of the captivity of the ten tribes by Shalmaneser, as Kimchi,...
_Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof._ Ver. 1. _Behold the Lord emptieth._] It must needs be a matt...
_Behold_, &c. According to Vitringa, the third book of Isaiah's prophecies begins with this chapter, and extends to the thirty-sixth, being divided into three discourses; the first comprehending four...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE EARTH. The four ers, 24 to 27 inclusive, form one continuous poetical prophecy, remarkable both for form and for content. It is a great chorus in four movements, describing the e...
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, depopulating it, taking away its inhabitants, AND MAKETH IT WASTE, by a final devastation, AND TURNETH IT UPSIDE DOWN, changing its form and appearance, AND SC...
TURNETH IT UPSIDE DOWN: _ Heb._ perverteth the face thereof...
1-12 All whose treasures and happiness are laid up on earth, will soon be brought to want and misery. It is good to apply to ourselves what the Scripture says of the vanity and vexation of spirit whi...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 24 Judgments on Judah for their defilements and transgressions, ISAIAH 24:1. A remnant shall praise God, ISAIAH 24:13. God, by his judgments on his people and their enemies, will advanc...
Isaiah 24:1 LORD H3068 earth H776 empty H1238 (H8802) waste H1110 (H8802) Distorts H5753 (H8765) surface...
IN THE FUTURE THAT IS TO COME THERE WILL BE WORLD-WIDE DEVASTATION (ISAIAH 24:1). Here as on opening gambit is a picture of unrelieved worldwide desolation in which all will be involved. None may esca...
MAKETH (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 1:2). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 4:23). _...
CONTENTS: Looking through national troubles to the Kingdom age. The coming tribulation for the Jews, destruction of Gentile powers and opening of the Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Earth, poll...
Isaiah 24:17. _Fear, and the pit._ This is a figure of hunting, the wild beasts being chased into pits dug in narrow passages, and covered with green branches. So the great ones should be caught, by t...
_Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty_ “THE EARTH,” “The earth,” not the “land” (R.. marg_._) of Judah or Palestine. “The prophecy leaps far beyond all particular or national conditions.” (_J. Sk...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 24:1 The third and climactic vision of God ruling the nations in judgment and salvation. These chapters foresee the whole world in crisis at the end of history, but God’s people...
SECTION VI. GOD'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 24:1 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT
Now as we get into chapter 24, we get into, really, things that the earth will be facing very soon, because we get into things that will be happening during the Great Tribulation as the Lord is prepar...
2 Kings 21:13; Acts 17:6; Deuteronomy 28:64; Deuteronomy 32:26;...