The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Isaiah 24 is the 24th chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the ChristianBible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophetIsaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 24-27 of Isaiah constitute one unit of prophecy sometimes called the "Isaiah Apocalypse". Chapter 24 contains the prophecy on the destruction of Judah for its defilements and transgressions (Isaiah 24:1–12), while a remnant will praise God (Isaiah 24:13–15), and God, by his judgments on his people and their enemies, will advance his kingdom (Isaiah 24:16–23).
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[4] Isaiah 24 is a part of the Prophecies about Judah and Israel (Isaiah 24–35). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.
{P} 24:1-15 {S} 24:16-20 {S} 24:21-23 {P}
Verse 1
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.[5]
"Empty" (Hebrew: בוקק bō-qêq; also written בקק): in the sense of "poured out from a vessel". The Arabic parallel has an onomatopoetic sound of water flowing, emptied out from a bottle or "gurgling noise" from that action.[6][7]
"Waste" (Hebrew: בולק bō-lêq; also written בלק; Assyrian: balâ‡u): "laid waste" or "devastated". The Arabic parallel means to "void" also a form of onomatopoeia, to "void" or "drain away" a bottle of its content; similar to the word that means "empty".[8][9]
↑Brown, Francis; Briggs, Charles A.; Driver, S. R. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Hendrickson Publishers; Reprint edition (1994). ISBN978-1565632066. בקק
↑Gesenius, H. W. F. Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (Translator). Baker Book House; 7th edition. 1979. בקק
↑Brown, Francis; Briggs, Charles A.; Driver, S. R. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Hendrickson Publishers; Reprint edition (1994). ISBN978-1565632066. בלק
↑Gesenius, H. W. F. Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (Translator). Baker Book House; 7th edition. 1979. בלק
