Isaiah 24:4 “The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exal…”

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

World English Bible

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

American Standard Version

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

Geneva Bible 1599

The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened.

Darby Translation

The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.

Young's Literal Translation

Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they — the high place of the people of the land.

Bible in Basic English

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

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Cross references

“mourneth”

Hosea 4:3 Isaiah 3:26 Isaiah 33:9 Isaiah 28:1 Isaiah 64:6 Jeremiah 4:28

Hosea 4:3 · BSB

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Isaiah 3:26 · BSB

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 33:9 · BSB

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 28:1 · BSB

Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.

Isaiah 64:6 · BSB

Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

Jeremiah 4:28 · BSB

Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

“haughty people”

Isaiah 2:11 Isaiah 2:12

Isaiah 2:11 · BSB

The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:12 · BSB

For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

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