4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.


In Context

1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

2 It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

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

5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Isaiah 24:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:4The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:4The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:4The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:4The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:4Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they — the high place of the people of the land.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:4The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.