Isaiah 24:1

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Maketh the earth empty - That is, will depopulate it, or take away its inhabitants, and its wealth. The word ‘earth’ here ( ארץ 'ārets ) is us...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Behold, the LORD maketh the (a) earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants. (a) This prophe...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 24. A World-wide Judgment Foretold. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted,...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. earth. Hebrew ha- 'arez . Occurs sixteen times in this chapter. R...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 gi...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, &c.— The first section of the first discourse, contained, in this chapter, is twofold: the first member, which properly explains the ju...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. Beho...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 o...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 comin...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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-pa...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 c...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. Ver. 1....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold , &c. According to Vitringa, the third book of Isaiah's prophecies begins with this chapter, and extends to the thirty-sixth, being divid...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

General Desolation Announced. B. C. 718. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ISAIAH CHAPTER 24 Judgments on Judah for their defilements and transgressions, Isaiah 24:1-12 . A remnant shall praise God, Isaiah 24:13-15 ....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

In The Future That Is To Come There Will Be World-wide Devastation ( Isaiah 24:1-3 ). Here as on opening gambit is a picture of unrelieved worldwi...
Scofield Reference Notes

maketh ( See Scofield) - ( Genesis 1:2 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Isaiah 4:23 ).
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 gre...
The Biblical Illustrator

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty “The earth,” “The earth,” not the “land” (R.. marg . ) of Judah or Palestine. “The prophecy leaps far...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION VI . GOD 'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 24:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENTS ON TH...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, depopulating it, taking away its inhabitants, and maketh it waste, by a final devastation, and turneth it...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 diso...

¹ Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turnetha it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 24:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 24:1