Isaiah 24:4

4 The earth will dry up completely. The world will dry up and waste away. The most important people on earth will fade away.

Isaiah 24:4 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourneth, [and] fadeth away
It mourns, because of its inhabitants being destroyed; and it fades away, because stripped of its wealth and riches: so the kings of the earth, and merchants of it are represented as weeping and mourning at the destruction of Rome, because of its judgments, and the loss of its trade and riches, ( Revelation 18:9-17 ) : the world languisheth, [and] fadeth away:
the inhabitants of it are like a sick man, that is so faint and feeble that he cannot stand, but totters and falls; and like the leaves of trees and flowers of the fields, whose strength and beauty are gone, and fade and fall: the haughty people of the earth do languish:
the kings and merchants of the earth before mentioned, who grow sick and faint through fear of what is coming upon them.

Isaiah 24:4 In-Context

2 Priests and people alike will suffer. So will masters and their servants. And so will women and their female servants. Sellers and buyers alike will suffer. So will those who borrow and those who lend. And so will those who owe money and those who lend it.

3 The earth will be completely destroyed. Everything of value will be taken out of it. That's what the LORD has said.

4 The earth will dry up completely. The world will dry up and waste away. The most important people on earth will fade away.

5 The earth is polluted by its people. They haven't obeyed the laws of the Lord. They haven't done what he told them to do. They've broken the covenant that will last forever.

6 So the LORD will send a curse on the earth. Its people will pay for what they've done. They will be burned up. Very few of them will be left.