Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
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.
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 Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself. 4 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. 5 For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Cross References
Isaiah 33:9
the desolate earth is in heaviness. Lebanon taketh it but for a sport, that it is hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness: Bashan and Carmel are turned upside down.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore shall the land be in a miserable cause, and all they that dwell therein, shall mourn. The beasts in the field, the fowls in the air, and the fishes in the sea shall die.
Isaiah 2:11-12
which casteth down the high looks of presumptuous persons, and bringeth low the pride of man, and the LORD only shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 3:26
At that time shall their gates mourn and complain, and they shall sit as desolate folk upon the earth.
Isaiah 28:1
Woe be to the crown of pride, even to the drunken people of Ephraim, whose great pomp is as a flower that fadeth away upon the head of the valley of such as be in wealth, and are overladen with wine.
Isaiah 64:6
We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind.
Jeremiah 4:28
And therefore let the earth mourn, and let the heaven be sorry above: for the things that I have purposed and taken upon me to do, shall not repent me, and I will not go from it."
Jeremiah 12:4
How long shall the land mourn, and all the herbs of the field perish, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The cattle and the birds are gone, yet say they, "Tush, God will not destroy us utterly."