Isaiah 24:17
Good News Translation
Listen to me, everyone! There are terrors, pits, and traps waiting for you.

New Revised Standard Version
Terror, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

Contemporary English Version
Terror, traps, and pits are waiting for everyone.

New American Bible
Terror, pit, and trap for you, inhabitant of the earth!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Leviticus 26:21,22 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins. . . .

1 Kings 19:17 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall escape the sword of Hazael, shall be slain by Jehu: and whosoever shall escape the sword of Jehu, shall be slain by Eliseus.

Jeremiah 8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 48:43,44 Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord: Although I shall send in upon Jerusalem my four grievous judgments, the sword, and the famine, and the mischievous beasts, and the pestilence, to destroy out of it man and beast,

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
16From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated. 17Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.18And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.…
Cross References
Job 18:8
For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

Isaiah 8:14
And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 11:11
Wherefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring in evils upon them, which they shall not be able to escape: and they shall cry to me, and I will not hearken to them.

Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 2:22
Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my enemy hath consumed them.

Lamentations 3:47
Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

Ezekiel 11:8
You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 12:13
And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there he shall die.

Amos 5:19
As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

Isaiah 24:16
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