I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl #– #wiping it and turning it upside down.
Isaiah 24:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. Common English Bible Look! The LORD will devastate the earth and destroy it, will twist its face and scatter its inhabitants. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version BEHOLD, the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. |
I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl #– #wiping it and turning it upside down.
Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will shake from its foundations at the wrath of the Lord of Armies, on the day of his burning anger.
They are coming from a distant land, from the farthest horizon – the Lord and the weapons of his wrath – to destroy the whole country.
People will go into caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the Lord and from his majestic splendour, when he rises to terrify the earth.
The earth is completely devastated; the earth is split open; the earth is violently shaken.
The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
For the fortified city will be desolate, pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip its branches.
You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. How can what is made say about its maker, ‘He didn’t make me’? How can what is formed say about the one who formed it, ‘He doesn’t understand what he’s doing’?
I will oppress Ariel, and there will be mourning and crying, and she will be to me like an Ariel.
And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord brings down on him will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres; he will fight against him with brandished weapons.
Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,
The land mourns and withers; Lebanon is ashamed and wilted. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
It will never go out #– #day or night. Its smoke will go up for ever. It will be desolate, from generation to generation; no one will pass through it for ever and ever.
The Lord is angry with all the nations, furious with all their armies. He will set them apart for destruction, giving them over to slaughter.
I will lay waste mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into islands and dry up marshes.
I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briars will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.
A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.
Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, ‘Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and allow all of Judah that has gathered around you to scatter and the remnant of Judah to perish? ’
Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last who crushed his bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
‘King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty dish; he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies; he has vomited me out.
I will scatter them among the nations that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.’
The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become dreadful. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’
Set the empty pot on its coals so that it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt inside it; its corrosion will be consumed.
‘ “This is what the Lord God says: While the whole world rejoices, I will make you a desolation.
‘I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.
You are to burn a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended; you are to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind, for I will draw a sword to chase after them.
I will stretch out my hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’
Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.
The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is on her whole crowd.
They have blown the trumpet and prepared everything, but no one goes to war, for my wrath is on her whole crowd.
The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; the earth trembles , at his presence – the world and all who live in it.
Desolation, decimation, devastation! Hearts melt, knees tremble, insides churn, every face grows pale!
They will be killed by the sword , and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles , until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, ‘These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,
Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
‘I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: To the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. , Greetings.