Isaiah 24 · Verse 4

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isaiah 24:4, King James Version

Isaiah 24:4 in other translations

BSBThe earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
WEBThe earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
ASVThe earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
YLTMourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they--the high place of the people of the land.
DARBYThe land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
BBEThe earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
WebsterThe earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

What does Isaiah 24:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. world--the kingdom of Israel; as in Is 13:11, Babylon. haughty--literally, "the height" of the people: abstract for concrete, that is, the high people; even the nobles share the general distress.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 The world languisheth - The world is the same with the land; that is, the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, orbis Israeliticus. See note on Isa 13:11 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 24:1-12

The desolation of the land. (Is. 24:1-12) A few shall be preserved. (Is. 24:13-15) God's kingdom advanced by his judgments. (Is. 24:16-23) Verses 1-12 All whose treasures and happiness are laid up on earth, will soon be brought to want and misery. It is good to apply to ourselves what the Scripture says of the vanity and vexation of spirit which attend all things here below. Sin has turned the earth upside down; the…

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Isaiah 24:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אָבְלָ֤ה'a.ve.Lahit has dried upH56
נָֽבְלָה֙na.ve.Lahit has witheredH5034
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776
אֻמְלְלָ֥ה'um.le.Lahit has languishedH535
נָבְלָ֖הna.ve.Lahit has witheredH5034
תֵּבֵ֑לte.Vel[the] worldH8398
אֻמְלָ֖לוּ'um.La.luthey have languishedH535
מְר֥וֹםme.Rom[the] noble[s] ofH4791
עַם\־'am-[the] people ofH5971
הָאָֽרֶץ\׃ha.'A.retzthe earthH776

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 24:4

  • Hosea 4:3

    Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

  • Isaiah 2:11-12

    The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

  • Isaiah 33:9

    The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

  • Isaiah 3:26

    And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

  • Isaiah 28:1

    Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

  • Jeremiah 12:4

    How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

  • Isaiah 64:6

    But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

  • Jeremiah 4:28

    For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
mourneth.
3:26; 28:1; 33:9; 64:6; Jer 4:28; 12:4; Ho 4:3
haughty people. Heb. height of the people.
2:11,12

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Context

  • Isaiah 24:3

    The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

  • Isaiah 24:4

    The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

  • Isaiah 24:5

    The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

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Isaiah 24:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Destruyóse, cayó la tierra; enfermó, cayó el mundo; enfermaron los altos pueblos de la tierra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Le pays mène deuil et se fane, le monde languit et se fane; ils languissent, – le peuple haut élevé du pays.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Es trauert, es welkt hin das Land; es schmachtet, es welkt hin der Erdkreis; es schmachten hin die Hohen des Volkes im Lande.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est; defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terræ.