III.
Jehovah's dealing with His beloved Israel issuing in Israel's revival and return to God and ushering in Christ with the restoration of all things
24:1—35:10
A.
Jehovah's reaction to Israel's degradation and His reaction to the nations' excessive action on Israel issuing in Israel's turn to Jehovah and their return to the Holy Land for restoration
24:1—27:13
Isa. 24
:1
24:1
Jehovah now makes the
aearth desolate and lays it waste; He distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants:
Isa. 24
:2
24:2
As it is with the people, so will it be with the priest;
As it is with the servant, so will it be with the master;
As it is with the maid, so will it be with the mistress;
As it is with the buyer, so will it be with the seller;
As it is with the lender, so will it be with the borrower;
As it is with the creditor, so will it be with him to whom he gives credit.
Isa. 24
:3
24:3
The earth will be utterly desolated
And utterly spoiled,
For Jehovah has spoken this word.
Isa. 24
:4
24:4
The earth dries up and fades away;
The world languishes and fades away;
The exalted of the people of the earth languish.
Isa. 24
:5
24:5
And the earth is
apolluted under
the weight of its inhabitants;
For they have transgressed laws, they have violated statutes,
They have broken an eternal covenant.
Isa. 24
:6
24:6
Therefore a curse devours the earth
And the inhabitants of it are held guilty;
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
And few men are left.
Isa. 24
:7
24:7
The new wine mourns; the vine languishes;
All the merryhearted sigh.
Isa. 24
:8
24:8
The mirth of the tambourines
aceases;
The noise of those who exult stops;
The mirth of the lyre ceases.
Isa. 24
:9
24:9
Men do not drink wine in song;
Liquor is bitter to those who drink it.
Isa. 24
:10
24:10
The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up that none may enter.
Isa. 24
:11
24:11
A cry for wine is in the streets;
All joy is darkened;
The mirth of the land is departed.
Isa. 24
:12
24:12
In the city desolation remains,
And the gate is crushed to ruins.
Isa. 24
:13
24:13
For thus will it be in the midst of the earth,
Among the peoples:
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Like the gleanings when the grape harvest is completed.
Isa. 24
:14
24:14
They will lift up their voice; they will give a ringing shout;
Because of the majesty of Jehovah they will cry out from the west.
Isa. 24
:15
24:15
Therefore in the east glorify Jehovah,
Even the
aname of Jehovah the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
Isa. 24
:16
24:16
From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
1Glory to the righteous One!
But I say, Leanness to me! Leanness to me! Woe to me!
The unfaithful deal unfaithfully!
Indeed the unfaithful deal most unfaithfully!
Isa. 24
:17
24:17
aDread, pit, and
bsnare Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isa. 24
:18
24:18
And he who flees from the sound of dread
Will fall into the pit,
And he who comes up out of the pit
Will be taken in the snare;
For the windows from on high are open,
And the foundations of the earth shake.
Isa. 24
:19
24:19
The earth is broken asunder;
The earth is split through and through;
The earth is shaken violently.
Isa. 24
:20
24:20
The earth staggers back and forth like a drunkard
And sways about like a field hut.
And its transgression weighs heavily upon it;
It will fall and will not rise again.
Isa. 24
:21
24:21
And in that day Jehovah will punish
On high the
1host on high,
And the
akings of the earth on the earth.
Isa. 24
:22
24:22
And they will be gathered together,
Like prisoners gathered in a dungeon;
And will be shut up in prison,
And after many days they will be punished.
Isa. 24
:23
24:23
Then the
amoon will be abashed, and the sun will be ashamed;
For Jehovah of hosts will reign
In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And
His glory will be before His elders.
