Isaiah 24 · Verse 22

Isaiah 24:22

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.
Isaiah 24:22, King James Version

Isaiah 24:22 in other translations

BSBThey will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
WEBThey will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.
ASVAnd 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.
YLTAnd they have been gathered--A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
DARBYAnd they shall be brought together, as an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
BBEAnd they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.
WebsterAnd they shall be gathered, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

What does Isaiah 24:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. in the pit--rather, "for the pit" [Horsley]. "In the dungeon" [Maurer]. Image from captives thrust together into a dungeon. prison--that is, as in a prison. This sheds light on the disputed passage, 1Pe 3:19, where also the prison is figurative: The "shutting up" of the Jews in Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, and again under Titus, was to be followed by a visitation of mercy "after many days"--seventy years in the case of the former--the time is not yet elapsed in the case of the latter. Horsley takes "visited" in a bad sense, namely, in wrath, as in Is 26:14; compare Is 29:6; the punishment being the heavier in the fact of the delay. Probably a double visitation is intended, deliverance to the elect, wrath to hardened unbelievers; as Is 24:23 plainly contemplates judgments on proud sinners, symbolized by the "sun" and "moon."

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 24:16-23

Believers may be driven into the uttermost parts of the earth; but they are singing, not sighing. Here is terror to sinners; the prophet laments the miseries he saw breaking in like a torrent; and the small number of believers. He foresees that sin would abound. The meaning is plain, that evil pursues sinners. Unsteady, uncertain are all these things. Worldly men think to dwell in the earth as in a palace, as in a…

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Isaiah 24:22 in the original Hebrew

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וְאֻסְּפ֨וּve.'u.se.Fuand they will be gatheredH622
אֲסֵפָ֤ה'a.se.Faha gatheringH626
אַסִּיר֙'a.Sirprisoner[s]H616
עַל\־'al-toH5921
בּ֔וֹרBora pitH953
וְסֻגְּר֖וּve.su.ge.Ruand they will be shut upH5462
עַל\־'al-atH5921
מַסְגֵּ֑רmas.Gera prisonH4525
וּמֵרֹ֥בu.me.Roand from an abundance ofH7230
יָמִ֖יםya.MimdaysH3117
יִפָּקֵֽדוּ\׃yi.pa.Ke.duthey will be visitedH6485

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Cross references for Isaiah 24:22

  • Zechariah 9:11

    As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

  • Isaiah 42:22

    But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

  • Jeremiah 38:6-13

    Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. Now when Ebed–melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; Ebed–melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying, My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. …

  • Ezekiel 38:8

    After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

  • Joshua 10:16-17

    But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.

  • Isaiah 10:4

    Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Isaiah 24:17

    Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

  • Isaiah 2:19

    And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

  • Joshua 10:22-26

    Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
they shall.
17; 2:19; Jos 10:16,17,22-26
as prisoners are gathered. Heb. with the gathering ofprisoners. pit. or, dungeon. shall they.
Jer 38:6-13; Zec 9:11
visited. or, found wanting.

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Context

  • Isaiah 24:21

    And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

  • Isaiah 24:22

    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.

  • Isaiah 24:23

    Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

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Isaiah 24:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y serán amontonados como se amontonan encarcelados en mazmorra, y en prisión quedarán encerrados, y serán visitados después de muchos días.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et ils seront assemblés dans la fosse, comme on assemble des prisonniers, et ils seront renfermés dans la prison; et après beaucoup de jours ils seront visités.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und sie werden in die Grube eingesperrt, wie man Gefangene einsperrt, und in den Kerker eingeschlossen; und nach vielen Tagen werden sie heimgesucht werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere, et post multos dies visitabuntur.