Isaiah 24:17

"From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously."

Key Reflection

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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Fear, and the pit -This verse is an explanation of the cause of the wretchedness referred to in the previous verse. The same expression is found inJeremiah 48:43, in his account of the destruction that would come upon Moab, a description which Jeremiah probably copied from Isaiah - There is also here in the original a “paronomasia” that cannot be retained in a translation -פחד ופחת ופחpachad vâpachath vâpach- where the formפחpachoccurs in each word. The sense is, that they were nowhere safe; that if they escaped one danger, they immediately fell into another.

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