Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
people	כָעָם֙ kha.'Am	H5971	a people (as a congregated unit) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
priest	כַּכֹּהֵ֔ן ka.ko.Hen	H3548	literally one officiating · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
servant	כַּעֶ֙בֶד֙ ka.'E.ved	H5650	a servant · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
master	כַּֽאדֹנָ֔יו ka.do.Nav	H113	sovereign · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
maid	כַּשִּׁפְחָ֖ה ka.shif.Chah	H8198	a female slave (as a member of the household) · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
mistress	כַּגְּבִרְתָּ֑הּ ka.ge.vir.Tah	H1404	mistress · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
buyer	כַּקּוֹנֶה֙ ka.ko.Neh	H7069	to erect · preposition with the article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
seller	כַּמּוֹכֵ֔ר ka.mo.Kher	H4376	to sell · preposition with the article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
lender	כַּמַּלְוֶה֙ ka.mal.Veh	H3867	properly · preposition with the article + verb, hiphil active participle, masculine singular absolute
borrower	כַּלֹּוֶ֔ה ka.lo.Veh	H3867	properly · preposition with the article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
usury	כַּנֹּשֶׁ֕ה ka.no.Sheh	H5383	to lend or (by reciprocity) borrow on security or inter… · preposition with the article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
so	כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר ka.'a.Sher	H834	who · preposition + relative particle
usury	נֹשֶׁ֥א no.She'	H5378	to lend on interest · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Hosea 4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
Lamentations 5:12-14 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Ezekiel 7:12-13 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Genesis 41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
Leviticus 25:36-37 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Deuteronomy 23:19-20 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
2 Chronicles 36:14-17 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the ho…
2 Chronicles 36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kin…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:1-12

It is a very dark and melancholy scene that this prophecy presents to our view; turn our eyes which way we will, every thing looks dismal. The threatened desolations are here described in a great variety of expressions to the same purport, and all aggravating. I. The earth is stripped of all its ornaments and looks as if it were taken off its basis; it is made empty and waste (Isa 24:1), as if it were reduced to its first chaos, Tohu and Bohu, nothing but confusion and emptiness again (Gen 1:2), without form and void. It is true earth sometimes signifies the land, and so the same word eretz is here translated (Isa 24:3): The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled; but I see not wh…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 24:2

as with the people, so with the priest--All alike shall share the same calamity: no favored class shall escape (compare Eze 7:12-13; Hos 4:9; Rev 6:15).

John Gill on Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest,.... Or, "prince" (p); no order or rank of men will fare better than another; their dignity, in things civil or ecclesiastical, will not secure them from ruin; it will be no better with princes and priests than the common people; they shall all alike share in the common destruction. Not Jeroboam's priests, but rather the Romish priests, are here meant, who have led the people into superstition and idolatry; blind leaders of the blind, and so both fall into the ditch together: as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; there shall be no distinction of superiors and inferiors; as not of prince and su…

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John Calvin on Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be. By these words he means the utmost desolation, in which there will be no longer any distinction of ranks or any appearance of a commonwealth; for so long as there is a tolerably regular form of government, some distinction continues to be maintained between "the people" and "the priests." By a figure of speech, in which a part is taken for the whole, (sunekdochikos,) he mentions one department instead of the whole class, as is frequently done in the Scriptures; though we might take kchnym, (kOchanim,) to mean those who hold any high rank; for Hebrew writers frequently give this name to princes, and especially to those who are of royal blood; but I have no reluctance to view…

The Church Fathers

What is written has surely been fulfilled in us: And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest. For the priest does not differ from the people when by no merit of his own does he transcend the common conduct.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 17

And this indeed is what the Lord, in the wrath of just retribution, menaced through the prophet, saying, "And there shall be like people, like priest." For the priest is as the people, when one who bears a spiritual office acts as do others who are still under judgment with regard to their carnal pursuits.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Pastoral Care, Part 2, Chapter 7

Nor indeed is there any distinction between the state of the people and that of the priesthood: but it seems to me to be a simple fulfillment of the ancient curse, "As with the people, so with the priest." Nor again are the great and eminent men affected otherwise than the majority; no, they are openly at war with the priest, and the piety of the people is an aid to their powers of persuasion. And indeed, provided that it is on behalf of the faith and of the highest and most important questions, let the people be thus disposed, and I do not blame them. To say the truth, I go so far as to praise and congratulate the people.
— Gregory of Nazianzus, IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT, ORATION 2:82

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Dictionary and topics

Sennacherib — Sin (the god) sends many brothers, son of Sargon, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (B.C. 705), in the 23rd year of Hezekiah. “Like the Persian Xerxes, he was weak and vainglorious, cowardly…
Commerce · Persons engaged in, called: Sellers and buyers — Persons engaged in, called: Sellers and buyers
Interest · but not generally signifying unlawful or unjust rates) — but not generally signifying unlawful or unjust rates)
Judgment · ACCORDING TO OPPORTUNITY AND WORKS — ACCORDING TO OPPORTUNITY AND WORKS
Lending · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Usury Or Interest · Judgments denounced against those who exacted unlawful — Judgments denounced against those who exacted unlawful

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 24:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:1-12

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 24:2

John Gill on Isaiah 24:2

John Calvin on Isaiah 24:2

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 24:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:1-12

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 24:2

John Gill on Isaiah 24:2

John Calvin on Isaiah 24:2

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 24:1-3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 24:1–end

Rashi on Isaiah 24:2