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**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos* .
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**earth.** Hebrew ha- *'arez* . Occurs sixteen times in this chapter. Rendered "land" in verses: [Isaiah 24:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/3) , [Isaiah 24:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/11) , [Isaiah 24:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/13)
**empty** . Note the Figure of speech *Synonymia* , "empty", "waste", "upside down", "scattered abroad". See App-6 .

**as . . . so.** Figure of speech *Simile* .
**the lender . . . the borrower.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 22:25](../../../kjv/exodus/22/25) , [Exodus 22:27](../../../kjv/exodus/22/27) . [Deuteronomy 15:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/15/2) ; [Deuteronomy 24:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/24/10) , [Deuteronomy 24:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/24/11) ). See App-92 .

**The land:** Hebrew. *ha-'drez* , as in [Isaiah 24:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/1) .
**utterly emptied.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* , for emphasis. Hebrew. *hibb6k tibbdk* .
**utterly spoiled.** Hebrew. *hibb6z tibboz* .

**mourneth.** See note on [Isaiah 3:26](../../../kjv/isaiah/3/26) .
**mourneth and fadeth away. languish.** Hebrew. *umlelah nablah tebel umlalu* .
**the earth, &c.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia* . This is one of the three places where (in the Hebrew) one verse ends with "the earth" and the next verse begins with "the earth", being the Figure of speech *Anadiplosis* . The other two passages are [Genesis 1:1](../../../kjv/genesis/1/1) , [Genesis 1:2](../../../kjv/genesis/1/2) , and [Hosea 2:23](../../../kjv/hosea/2/23) , Hos 2:24 .

**The earth.** See last note on p. 959.
**transgressed.** Hebrew. *'abar* . App-44 .
**the laws. the everlasting covenant.** Reference to Pentateuch. See note on [Genesis 9:16](../../../kjv/genesis/9/16) ; and App-92 , The Pentateuch was as well known to Isaiah as to the kings in whose reigns he prophesied.

**Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth.** Some codices, with four early printed editions (one in margin), and Syriac, read "Because of a curse the earth mourneth".
**earth.** Hebrew. *'erez* .
**desolate** = laid waste. Hebrew. *'asham.* Compare verses: [Isaiah 24:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/10) , [Isaiah 24:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/12) , [Isaiah 24:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/23) .

**new wine** = must. Hebrew. *tirosh* . App-27 .

**tabrets** = drums. See note on drums, [1 Samuel 10:5](../../../kjv/1-samuel/10/5) .

**wine.** Hebrew. *yayin* . App-27 .
**strong drink.** Hebrew. *shekar* App-27 .

**confusion** = desolation. Hebrew. *tohu* . Same word as "without form". Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 1:2](../../../kjv/genesis/1/2) ). Occurs in "former" portion three times (here; [Isaiah 29:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/1) , "thing of naught; "[Isaiah 34:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/11) ); and in the "latter" portion eight times ([Isaiah 40:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/17) , [Isaiah 40:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/23) ; [Isaiah 41:29](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/29) ; [Isaiah 44:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/9) , "vanity; "[Isaiah 45:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/18) , [Isaiah 45:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/19) , "in vain; "[Isaiah 49:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/4) , "naught; "[Isaiah 59:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/59/4) , "vanity").
**no man** = no one.

**desolation** = astonishment. Hebrew. *shamen* . Compare [Isaiah 24:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/6) , [Isaiah 24:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/10) , [Isaiah 24:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/23) .

**sea.** Note the Figure of speech *Ellipsis* = sea [saying]. See note on [Psalms 109:5](../../../kjv/psalms/109/5) .

**fires:** Or, valleys.
**isles** = maritime countries. See note on [Isaiah 11:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/1) .

**the righteous** = the righteous One (singular): i.e. the One referred to in [Isaiah 24:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/15) ; or, the nation, as in [Isaiah 26:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/2) . compare [Acts 3:14](../../../kjv/acts/3/14) ; [Acts 7:52](../../../kjv/acts/7/52) ; [Acts 22:14](../../../kjv/acts/22/14) .
**I said** = I had said: i. e the land. Figure of speech *Prosopopaeia* .
**My leanness, my leanness.** Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* , for emphasis.
**treacherous dealers, &c.** = traitors have betrayed.

**Fear, and the pit, and the snare.** Figure of speech *Synonymia* , and Figure of speech *Paonomasia* , not a "play on words", but for great and solemn emphasis. Hebrew. *paphad* , vapahath, happa vappaph (tr. Eng., scare, lair, snare).

**fear. pit. snare.** Figure of speech *Paronomasia*
**again.** Hebrew. *happahad. huppahath. happahath bapah* . See [Luke 21:35](../../../kjv/luke/21/35) , and compare [Jeremiah 48:43](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/43) , [Jeremiah 48:44](../../../kjv/jeremiah/48/44) .
**the windows from on high, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 7:11](../../../kjv/genesis/7/11) ).
**are open** = have opened.
**foundations of the earth.** See [Isaiah 58:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/58/12) . Compare [Isaiah 40:21](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/21) .

**utterly broken down.** Note Figure of speech *Polyptoton* . Hebrew breaking, breaks up. Same Figure of speech below.
**clean dissolved.** Hebrew bursting, bursts up.
**moved exceedingly.** Hebrew tottering, tottereth.

**reel to and fro.** Hebrew staggering, staggereth.
**removed.** Hebrew rocketh to and fro.
**transgression** = revolt. Hebrew. *pasha* . App-44 . Not the same word as in [Isaiah 24:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/5) .

**that are.** Omit.
**earth** = the ground, or, Soil. Hebrew. *ha-adamah* . Compare [Isaiah 6:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/12) .

**pit.** Not the same word as in verses: [Isaiah 24:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/17) , [Isaiah 24:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/24/18) . Here, Hebrew. *bor* , a dug-out pit, or dungeon. Occurs in [Isaiah 14:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/15) , [Isaiah 14:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/19) ; [Isaiah 36:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/36/13) ; [Isaiah 38:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/38/18) ; and in "latter" portion, [Isaiah 51:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/1) . App-79 .
**and** = even.
**visited:** i.e. with the judgments foretold in the preceding Verses. Compare [Isaiah 10:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/3) ; [Isaiah 26:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/14) , [Isaiah 26:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/16) ; [Isaiah 29:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/6) .

**confounded** = blush (from shame).
**ashamed** = turn pale (from fear).
**the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Isaiah 1:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/9) .
**ancients** = elders. Compare [Revelation 4:4](../../../kjv/revelation/4/4) .
**gloriously** = in glory, or "[shall be] a glory".

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