Isaiah 24:19

19 The earth shall be utterly broken down; the earth is clean dissolved; the earth is moved exceedingly.

Isaiah 24:19 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 24:19

The earth is utterly broken down
Still alluding to the deluge, when the earth broke in upon the waters under it, if Mr. Burnet's theory of the earth can be supported: the earth is clean dissolved;
it will be an entire dissolution, nothing shall remain; all these things, as Peter says, the heavens and the earth, and all in them, shall be dissolved, ( 2 Peter 3:11 2 Peter 3:12 ) : the earth is moved exceedingly;
out of its place and form, and shall fall into its original chaos and confusion. The Targum is,

``moving, the earth shall be moved; agitating, the earth shall be agitated; breaking or dissolving, the earth shall be broken or dissolved;''

which seems to express the more gradual and natural dissolution of the world. These expressions are used, and repeated, to declare the certain and complete destruction of it.

Isaiah 24:19 In-Context

17 Fear and the pit and the snare are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

18 And it shall come to pass that he who shall flee from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that shall come up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: because from on high, windows have been opened, and the foundations of the earth shall shake.

19 The earth shall be utterly broken down; the earth is clean dissolved; the earth is moved exceedingly.

20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage; and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and never rise again.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall visit punishment upon the host of the high ones that are on high and upon the kings of the earth on the earth.