For the majesty of the Lord
They shall cry aloud from the sea.
bThe name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
“Glory to the righteous!”
But I said,1 “I am ruined, ruined!
Woe to me!
aThe treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,
Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”
That he who flees from the noise of the fear
Shall fall into the pit,
And he who comes up from the midst of the pit
Shall be caught in the snare;
For athe windows from on high are open,
And bthe foundations of the earth are shaken.
And shall totter like a hut;
Its transgression shall be heavy upon it,
And it will fall, and not rise again.
That the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth athe kings of the earth.
As prisoners are gathered in the1 pit,
And will be shut up in the prison;
After many days they will be punished.
And the sun ashamed;
For the Lord of hosts will breign
On cMount Zion and in Jerusalem
And before His elders, gloriously.
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Isaiah 24:16
But I said - The prophet speaks in the person of the inhabitants of the land still remaining there, who should be pursued by Divine vengeance, and suffer repeated distresses from the inroads and depredations of their powerful enemies. Agreeably to what he said before in a general denunciation of these calamities: -
"Though there be a tenth part remaining in it;
Even this shall undergo a repeated destruction."
Isaiah 6:13 (note). See the note there. - L.
My leanness, my leanness - Or, my secret; so the Vulgate, Montanus, and my old MS; razan has this meaning in Chaldee; but in Hebrew it signifies to make lean, to waste. This sentence in the Hebrew has a strange connection of uncouth sounds: Vaomer , razi li razi li , oi li , bogedim bagadu , ubeged bogedim bagadu . This may be equalled by the translation in my Old MS. Bible: And I seide, my priveye thinge to me: my priveye thinge to me: woo to me: The lawe breykynge thei breken: and in lawe brekynge of the overdon thingis, they breken the lawe.
The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously "The plunderers plunder" - See note on Isaiah 21:2.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 24:16:
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