Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 24:4

4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

From this Word some infer, That this Prophecy concerns not onely the Land of Iudaea, but also the neighbouring Countries: But if the proper Signification of that Word be urged, this Prophecy must be extended to all the Parts of the World, which these Learned men will not allow. And the world, both in Scripture, and other Authors, is oft used Synechdochically for that which is in truth but a small part of it, at least in comparison with the Whole; as it is not onely of the Roman Empire, as Luk. 2. 1. Act. 11. 28. but also of Babylon, Isa. 13. 11. and, which cometh nearer to the point, of this very Land of Iudaea, as Ioh. 12. 19. & 18. 20. and elsewhere. And therefore it may well be so understood here, especially when this Word world is explained by those other Words the earth, and the land, which the very next Verse sheweth to be meant of Israel or Iudaea, as we shall there discover.

Not onely Common People, who use to be of low Spirits; but the High and Lofty ones, who use to be stout in their Words and Carriages towards me, and to deride my Threatnings.

Marginal references: Heb. the heighth of the people.