Isaiah 24:3 - Easy To Read Version All the people will be forced out of the land. The wealth will all be taken. This will happen because the Lord commanded it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
And so the things the Lord told the people of Israel through the prophet Jeremiah really happened. The Lord had said through Jeremiah: “This place will be an empty wasteland for 70 years. {\cf2\super [456]} This will happen to make up for the Sabbath rests {\cf2\super [457]} that the people didn’t do.”
At that time, only a few of the archers, {\cf2\super [212]} the great soldiers of Kedar, will be left alive.” The Lord, the God of Israel, told me those things.
“At that time, the nail (Shebna) that is now hammered into a very strong board will become weak and it will break. That nail will fall to the ground and all the things hanging on that nail will be destroyed. Then everything I said in this message will happen.” \{(Those things will happen because the Lord said them.)
Look! The Lord will destroy this land. The Lord will completely clean everything from the land. The Lord will force the people to go far away.
At that time, the common people and the priests will be the same. Slaves and masters will be the same. Women slaves and their women masters will be the same. The buyers and sellers will be the same. The people that borrow and the people that lend will be the same. The bankers and the people that owe the bank will be the same.
The country will be empty and sad. The world will be empty and weak. The great leaders of the people in this land will become weak.
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
I will make my vineyard {\cf2\super [47]} an empty field.\par No person will care for the plants.\par No person will work in the field.\par Weeds and thorns will grow there.\par I will command the clouds\par not to rain on the field.”\par
Listen and pay attention.\par The Lord has spoken to you.\par Don’t be proud.\par
So, mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord my Master! The Lord my Master says this to the mountains, hills, streams, valleys, empty ruins, and abandoned cities that have been looted and laughed at by the other nations around them.
Then people will sing songs about you.\par People will sing this sad song:\par ‘We are ruined!\par The Lord took away our land.\par And gave it to other people.\par Yes, he took my land away from me.\par The Lord has divided our fields\par \{among our enemies\}.\par
Each person will sit under his own grapevine and fig tree.\par No person will make \{them\} afraid!\par Why? Because the Lord All-Powerful\par said it would happen like that!\par
All the land will be useless—destroyed by burning sulfur and covered with salt. The land will have nothing planted in it. Nothing will be growing—not even weeds. The land will be destroyed like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, the cities the Lord destroyed when he was very angry.
The Lord became very angry and upset at them. So he took them out of their land. He put them in another land, where they are today.’