Isaiah 24:17 Terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth.

◄ Isaiah 24:17 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth.

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

New American Standard Bible
Terror and pit and snare Confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

King James Bible
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Panic, pit, and trap await you who dwell on the earth.

International Standard Version
"Terror and pit and snare are coming in your direction, you inhabitants of the earth!

American Standard Version
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, inhabitant of the land.

Young's Literal Translation
Fear, and a snare, and a gin, Are on thee, O inhabitant of the land.

Cross References

Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a snare.

Isaiah 8:14
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be on you, O inhabitant of Moab, said the LORD.

Lamentations 2:22
You have called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up has my enemy consumed.

Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.

Ezekiel 11:8
You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword on you, said the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 12:13
My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

Amos 5:19
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

24:16-23 Believers may be driven into the uttermost parts of the earth; but they are singing, not sighing. Here is terror to sinners; the prophet laments the miseries he saw breaking in like a torrent; and the small number of believers. He foresees that sin would abound. The meaning is plain, that evil pursues sinners. Unsteady, uncertain are all these things. Worldly men think to dwell in the earth as in a palace, as in a castle; but it shall be removed like a cottage, like a lodge put up for the night. It shall fall and not rise again; but there shall be new heavens and a new earth, in which shall dwell nothing but righteousness. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; it is a heavy burden, under which it groans now, and will sink at last. The high ones, that are puffed up with their grandeur, that think themselves out of the reach of danger, God will visit for their pride and cruelty. Let us judge nothing before the time, though some shall be visited. None in this world should be secure, though their condition be ever so prosperous; nor need any despair, though their condition be ever so deplorable. God will be glorified in all this. But the mystery of Providence is not yet finished. The ruin of the Redeemer's enemies must make way for his kingdom, and then the Sun of Righteousness will appear in full glory. Happy are those who take warning by the sentence against others; every impenitent sinner will sink under his transgression, and rise no more, while believers enjoy everlasting bliss.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17. This verse explains the wretchedness spoken of in Isa 24:16. Jeremiah (Jer 48:43, 44) uses the same words. They are proverbial; Isa 24:18 expressing that the inhabitants were nowhere safe; if they escaped one danger, they fell into another, and worse, on the opposite side (Am 5:19). "Fear" is the term applied to the cords with feathers of all colors which, when fluttered in the air, scare beasts into the pitfall, or birds into the snare. Horsley makes the connection. Indignant at the treatment which the Just One received, the prophet threatens the guilty land with instant vengeance.