Isaiah 24:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BEHOLD, THE Lord will make the land and the earth empty and make it waste and turn it upside down (twist the face of it) and scatter abroad its inhabitants.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹ Look! The LORD will devastate the earth and destroy it, will twist its face and scatter its inhabitants.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Behold, the Lord will lay waste to the earth, and he will strip it, and he will afflict its surface, and he will scatter its inhabitants.

Isaiah 24:1 Cross References

Nahum 2:10

Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble; all loins quake; all faces grow pale!

Isaiah 2:19

Enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from the terror of the Lord and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains and hills and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth staggers like a drunkard; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls and will not rise again.

Ezekiel 35:14

Thus says the Lord God: As the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Ezekiel 12:20

The inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live, your towns shall be waste and your high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense stands cut down, and your works wiped out.

Ezekiel 5:14

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Ezekiel 5:2

One third of the hair you shall burn in the fire inside the city when the days of the siege are completed; one third you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.

Isaiah 33:9

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 29:16

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, “He did not make me,” or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calves graze there; there they lie down and strip its branches.

Isaiah 5:6

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.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Nehemiah 1:8

Remember the word that you commanded Moses your servant, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,

2 Kings 21:13

I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line for Samaria and the plummet for the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said, “I will make an end of them and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”

Deuteronomy 28:64

The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.

Ezekiel 24:11

Stand it empty upon the coals, so that it may become hot, its copper glow, its filth melt in it, its crud be consumed.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one else will know. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered around you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?”

James 1:1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings.

Acts 17:6

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers and sisters before the city authorities, shouting, “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also,

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from its thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Isaiah 13:5

They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

Isaiah 13:13

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth is utterly broken; the earth is torn apart; the earth is violently shaken.

Isaiah 30:32

And every stroke of the staff of punishment that the Lord lays upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres with dancing; with brandished arm he will fight with him.

Isaiah 34:2

For the Lord is enraged against all the nations and furious against all their hordes; he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

Isaiah 34:10

Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and ever.

Jeremiah 51:34

“King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has spewed me out.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who live in it.

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will oppress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and you shall be to me like an Ariel.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their settlements, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.

Ezekiel 7:14

They have blown the horn and made everything ready, but no one goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.