◄ Isaiah 24:4 ►
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Good News Translation
The earth dries up and withers; the whole world grows weak; both earth and sky decay.

New Revised Standard Version
The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.

Contemporary English Version
The earth wilts away; its mighty leaders melt to nothing.

New American Bible
The earth mourns and fades, the world languishes and fades; both heaven and earth languish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

mourneth

Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.

Isaiah 33:9 The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and become foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken.

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Jeremiah 4:28 The Earth shall mourn, and the heavens shall lament from above: because I have spoken, I have purposed, and I have not repented, neither am I turned away from it.

Jeremiah 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.

Hosea 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.

haughty people.

Isaiah 2:11,12 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. . . .

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
…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.5And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.…
Cross References
Isaiah 2:12
Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.

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 24:21
And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth.

Isaiah 33:9
The land hath mourned, and languished: Libanus is confounded, and become foul, and Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken.

Lamentations 1:4
Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness.

Hosea 4:3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.

Joel 1:10
The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.

Isaiah 24:3
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