Isaiah 24:2

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Summary

And it shall 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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

As with the people

General references

Isaiah 24:19

Bible References

As with the people

And the low boweth down, and the high is humbled, And Thou acceptest them not.

Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,

And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,

And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,

Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people, having multiplied to commit a trespass according to all the abominations of the nations, and they defile the house of Jehovah that He hath sanctified in Jerusalem.

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

And Ishmael son of Nethaniah riseth, and the ten men who have been with him, and they smite Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and he putteth him to death whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the land.

for thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: As poured out hath been Mine anger and My fury on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so poured out is My fury upon you in your entering Egypt, and ye have been for an execration, and for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach, and ye do not see any more this place.

'Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am setting my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah,

And the chief of the executioners taketh Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold,

Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath is unto all its multitude.

and I have set My face against that man, and made him for a sign, and for similes, and I have cut him off from the midst of My people, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.

we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments:

And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

General references

Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.