to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Isaiah 24:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The land and the earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly pillaged; for the Lord has said this. American Standard Version (1901) The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word. Common English Bible The earth will be devastated, totally devastated; it will be destroyed, completely destroyed because the LORD has said it would be so. Catholic Public Domain Version The earth will be utterly devastated and utterly plundered. For the Lord has spoken this word. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. |
to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
and the remaining bows of Kedar’s warriors will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”
On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will perish, for the Lord has spoken.”
Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.
But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with no one to rescue, a spoil with no one to say, “Restore!”
I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;
On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and wail with bitter lamentation and say, “We are utterly ruined; the Lord alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields.”
but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—
The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’