Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Holman Bible
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
International Standard Version
"The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth.
American Standard Version
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
Amplified
The earth dries up and crumbles away, the world dries out and crumbles away, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.
Bible in Basic English
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
Darby Translation
The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
Julia Smith Translation
The earth mourning, fell away: the habitable globe languishing, fell away: the heights of the people of the land languished,
King James 2000
The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The earth dries up, it withers; [the] world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,
Modern King James verseion
The earth mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught.
NET Bible
The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away.
New Heart English Bible
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
The Emphasized Bible
Mourneth, fadeth, the earth Languisheth, fadeth, the world, - Languished have the lofty of the people of the earth.
Webster
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
World English Bible
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.
Interlinear
'erets
Nabel
נבל
Nabel
fade, fade away, wear away, wither, disgrace, surely, dishonoureth, fall down, esteemed, falling, foolishly, come to nought, fall off, surely, make vile
Usage: 25
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 24:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Judgment On The Earth
3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste, for LORD 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 the inhabitants of it, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Cross References
Isaiah 33:9
The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves].
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yea, the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away.
Isaiah 2:11-12
The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of those who are overcome with wine!
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds, because they said, He shall not see our latter end.