Isaiah 24:2
Good News Translation
Everyone will meet the same fate--the priests and the people, slaves and masters, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, rich and poor.

New Revised Standard Version
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, 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 creditor, so with the debtor.

Contemporary English Version
including ordinary people and priests, slaves and slave owners, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, the rich and the poor.

New American Bible
People and priest shall fare alike: servant and master, Maid and mistress, buyer and seller, Lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

as with the people

Isaiah 2:9 And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

Isaiah 3:2-8 The strong man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet and the cunning man, and the ancient. . . .

Isaiah 5:15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

Isaiah 9:14-17 And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:14-17,20 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem. . . .

Jeremiah 5:3-6 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return. . . .

Jeremiah 23:11-13 For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 41:2 And Ismahel the son of Nathanias arose, and the ten men that were with him, and they struck Godolias the son of Ahicam, the son of Saphan with the sword, and slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

Jeremiah 42:18 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place no more.

Jeremiah 44:11-13 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will set my face upon you for evil: and I will destroy all Juda. . . .

Jeremiah 52:24-30 And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the second priest, and the three keepers of the entry. . . .

Lamentations 4:13 Mem. For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Lamentations 5:12-14 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancients. . . .

Ezekiel 7:12,13 The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof. . . .

Ezekiel 14:8-10 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example, and a proverb, and will cut him off from the midst of my people: and you shall know that I am the Lord. . . .

Daniel 9:5-8 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from thy commandments, and thy judgments. . . .

Hosea 4:9 And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.

Ephesians 6:8,9 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man shall do, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bond or free. . . .

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Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
1Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. 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.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:36
Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:37
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

Deuteronomy 23:19
Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:

Deuteronomy 23:20
But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

Isaiah 24:3
With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

Isaiah 28:7
But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Hosea 4:9
And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.

Isaiah 24:1
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