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Isaiah 24:17 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 24 · verse 17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.Isaiah 24:17 · King James Version
Isaiah 24:17 in context
15Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- inhabitantyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- snarepacha sheetH6341 →
- Fearpachada alarmH6343 →
- pitpachatha pit, especially forcatching animalsH6354 →
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These verses, as those before, plainly speak, I. Comfort to saints. They may be driven, by the common calamities of the places where they live, into the uttermost parts of the earth, or perhaps they are forced thither for their religion; but there they are singing, not sighing.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-23