Isaiah 24:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.”
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“The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they--the high place of the people of the land.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 24:4 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
- Isaiah 28:1Woe 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 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
- Isaiah 64:6Each 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 4:28Therefore 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.”
- Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Hosea 4:3Therefore 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.
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