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Isaiah 24:1

WEB

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

KJV

1Behold, the LORD[+] maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

BSB

1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants

FBV

1Watch out! The Lord is going to destroy the earth, to make it totally devastated. He's going to rip up the surface of the earth and scatter its inhabitants.

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Extra References

Nahum 2:10

10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.


Isaiah 2:19

19Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.


Isaiah 24:20

20The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.


Isaiah 42:15

15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.


Ezekiel 35:14

14The Lord GOD says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.


Ezekiel 12:20

20The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”’”


Isaiah 6:11-12

11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

12and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.


Deuteronomy 32:26

26I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;


Isaiah 29:16

16You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?


Ezekiel 5:14

14“‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.