Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 24:1

CHAPTER 24

Is 24:1-23. The Last Times of the World in General, and of Judah and the Church in Particular.

The four chapters (the twenty-fourth through the twenty-seventh) form one continuous poetical prophecy: descriptive of the dispersion and successive calamities of the Jews (Is 24:1-12); the preaching of the Gospel by the first Hebrew converts throughout the world (Is 24:13-16); the judgments on the adversaries of the Church and its final triumph (Is 24:16-23); thanksgiving for the overthrow of the apostate faction (Is 25:1-12), and establishment of the righteous in lasting peace (Is 26:1-21); judgment on leviathan and entire purgation of the Church (Is 27:1-13). Having treated of the several nations in particular--Babylon, Philistia, Moab, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Edom, and Tyre (the miniature representative of all, as all kingdoms flocked into it)--he passes to the last times of the world at large and of Judah the representative and future head of the churches.

1. the earth--rather, "the land" of Judah (so in Is 24:3, 5, 6; Joe 1:2). The desolation under Nebuchadnezzar prefigured that under Titus.