Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 24:1

BEhold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Or, the land, to wit, of Canaan, or Israel, or Iudaea. It is usual with all Writers, when they write of their own Country, to call it the land, by way of eminency. There are many things in this Prophecy which manifestly concern this Land and People; and nothing, at least before v. 21. which may be taken as a new and additional Prophecy, which is necessarily to be understood of other Nations. But this I speak with submission, and due respect to those Learned and Judicious Interpreters who take this to be a Prophecy against Iudaea, and all the neighbouring Nations.

He will shortly make it waste, first by the Assyrians, and then by the Chaldeans.

Bringeth it into great disorder and confusion.

Marginal references: Heb. perverteth the face thereof.