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The LORD is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people. English Standard Version. Behold, the LORD will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. Berean Standard Bible.
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Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it,...
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Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
The chapter begins by declaring that the Lord will one day "empty the earth," or lay it to waste, and make it a wasteland. God will destroy the face of the earth and scatter the people who remain. The root word for "scatter" in Hebrew is puwts.
The LORD’s Devastation of the Earth - See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants— it will be the same for priest as for people, for ...
1 Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants. 2 And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the female servant like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
The prophet predicted that the Lord would lay the earth (land) waste, the sum total of all the nations, including those representative ones condemned in the oracles. Isaiah always used "behold" to introduce something future (cf. Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 17:1; Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 30:27; et al.).
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The LORD’s Devastation of the Earth - See, the LORD is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants— it will be the same for priest as for people, for ...
