Isaiah 24:3
Good News Translation
The earth will lie shattered and ruined. The LORD has spoken and it will be done.

New Revised Standard Version
The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the LORD has spoken this word.

Contemporary English Version
The earth will be stripped bare and left that way. This is what the LORD has promised.

New American Bible
The earth shall be utterly laid waste, utterly stripped, for the LORD has decreed this word.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

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Isaiah 24:1 Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Isaiah 6:11 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

Leviticus 26:30-35 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:23,28 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation: . . .

2 Chronicles 36:21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Ezekiel 36:4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the brooks, and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and ruinous walls, and to the cities that are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by the rest of the nations round about.

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Isaiah 21:17 And the residue of the number of strong archers of the children of Cedar shall be diminished: for the Lord the God of Israel hath spoken it.

Isaiah 22:25 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.

Jeremiah 13:15 Hear ye, and give ear: Be not proud, for the Lord hath spoken.

Micah 4:4 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into spades: nation shall not take sword against nation: neither shall they learn war anymore.

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
2And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth. 3With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.4The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 24:2
And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth.

Isaiah 24:4
The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.

Micah 2:4
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

Isaiah 24:2
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