Isaiah 24:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

The earth has mourned, faded, || The world has languished, faded, || They have languished—the high place of the people of the earth.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

JPS

The earth fainteth and fadeth away, the world faileth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do fail.

LXXE

The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אָבְלָ֤ה נָֽבְלָה֙ הָאָ֔רֶץ אֻמְלְלָ֥ה נָבְלָ֖ה תֵּבֵ֑ל אֻמְלָ֖לוּ מְר֥וֹם עַם־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐπένθησεν ἡ γῆ, καὶ ἐφθάρη ἡ οἰκουμένη, ἐπένθησαν οἱ ὑψηλοὶ τῆς γῆς.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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.
• Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
• 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 2:11–12The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is…
• 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.
• 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.”
• 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.

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