KJV King James Version
And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
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Isaiah 24:22
And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
WEB World English Bible
They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
ASV American Standard Version
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they have been gathered—A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 24
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
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וְאֻסְּפ֨וּH622 · a.saphto gatherאֲסֵפָ֤הH626 · a.se.phahcollectingאַסִּיר֙H616 · as.sirprisonerעַל־H5921 · aluponבּ֔וֹרH953 · borpitוְסֻגְּר֖וּH5462 · sa.garto shutעַל־H5921 · aluponמַסְגֵּ֑רH4525 · mas.gerlocksmithוּמֵרֹ֥בH7230 · rovabundanceיָמִ֖יםH3117 · yomdayיִפָּקֵֽדוּ׃H6485 · pa.qadto reckon: list
Cross-references
Zechariah 9:11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.Jeremiah 38:6-13Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.Isaiah 42:22But this [is] a people robbed and spoiled; [they are] all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.Joshua 10:16-17But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.Isaiah 2:19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.Joshua 10:22-26Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.Isaiah 10:4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.Ezekiel 38:8After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from the sword, [and is] gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.Isaiah 24:17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
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