You will have to bow down like a prisoner. You will fall down like a dead person. But that will not help you! God will still be angry. God will still be ready to punish you.
Isaiah 24:22 - Easy To Read Version Many people will be gathered together.\par Some of them have been locked in the Pit.\par Some of them have been in prison. {\cf2\super [233]} \par But finally, after much time,\par they will be judged.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they will be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in a pit or dungeon; they will be shut up in prison, and after many days they will be visited, inspected, and punished or pardoned. [Zech. 9:11, 12; II Pet. 2:4; Jude 6.] American Standard Version (1901) And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited. Common English Bible They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit, shut into a prison, and punished after many days. Catholic Public Domain Version And they will be gathered together like the gathering of one bundle into a pit. And they will be enclosed in that place, as in a prison. And after many days, they will be visited. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the pit. And they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited. |
You will have to bow down like a prisoner. You will fall down like a dead person. But that will not help you! God will still be angry. God will still be ready to punish you.
People will hide behind rocks and in cracks in the ground. People will be afraid of the Lord and his great power. This will happen when the Lord stands to make the earth shake.
\{I see danger for the people living\par in this land.\par I see\} fear, holes, and traps for them.\par
But look at the people.\par Other people have defeated them\par and have stolen things from them.\par All the young men are afraid.\par They are locked in the prisons.\par People have taken their money from them.\par And there is no person to save them.\par Other people took their money.\par And there was no person to say,\par “Give it back!”\par
After a long time you will be called for duty. In the later years you will come into the land that has been healed from war. The people in that land were gathered from many nations and brought back to the mountains of Israel. In the past, the mountains of Israel had been destroyed again and again. But these people will have come back from those other nations. They all will have lived in safety.
Jerusalem, we used blood\par to seal your Agreement.\par So I am setting your people free\par from that empty hole in the ground. {\cf2\super [24]} \par
Prisoners, go home!\par Now you have something to hope for.\par I am telling you now,\par I am coming back to you!\par
The angel grabbed the giant snake (that old serpent). The giant snake is the devil (or Satan). The angel tied him \{with the chain\} for 1,000 years.