Isaiah 24
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 24, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. {turneth...: Heb. perverteth the face thereof}
Isaiah 24:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. {priest: or, prince}
Isaiah 24:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 24:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The earth mourneth {and} fadeth away, the world languisheth {and} fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. {the haughty...: Heb. the height of the people}
Isaiah 24:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Isaiah 24:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Isaiah 24:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Isaiah 24:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Isaiah 24:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah 24:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{There is} a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Isaiah 24:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah 24:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, {there shall be} as the shaking of an olive tree, {and} as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Isaiah 24:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
Isaiah 24:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, {even} the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. {fires: or, valleys}
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From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, {even} glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. {uttermost...: Heb. wing} {My leanness: Heb. Leanness to me, or, My secret to me}
Isaiah 24:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Fear, and the pit, and the snare, {are} upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 24:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, {that} he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Isaiah 24:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isaiah 24:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isaiah 24:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {punish: Heb. visit upon}
Isaiah 24:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {as prisoners...: Heb. with the gathering of prisoners} {pit: or, dungeon} {visited: or, found wanting}
Isaiah 24:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {before...: or, there shall be glory before his ancients}
Isaiah 24:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.