Isaiah 24:22
Good News Translation
God will crowd kings together like prisoners in a pit. He will shut them in prison until the time of their punishment comes.

New Revised Standard Version
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.

Contemporary English Version
He will put them in a pit and keep them prisoner. Then later on, he will punish them.

New American Bible
They will be gathered together like prisoners into a pit; They will be shut up in a dungeon, and after many days they will be punished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.

they shall

Isaiah 24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.

Isaiah 2:19 And they shall go into the holes of rocks, and into the caves of the earth from the face of the fear of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall rise up to strike the earth.

Joshua 10:16,17,22-26 For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda. . . .

as prisoners are gathered.

pit.

Jeremiah 38:6-13 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremiah sunk into the mire. . . .

Zechariah 9:11 Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

visited.

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
21And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord shall visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, on the earth. 22And they shall be gathered together as in the gathering of one bundle into the pit, and they shall be shut up there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.23And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, and shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.…
Cross References
Revelation 20:2
And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Isaiah 10:4
That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore.

Ezekiel 38:8
After many days thou shalt be visited: at the end of years thou shalt come to the land that is returned from the sword, and is gathered out of many nations, to the mountains of Israel which have been continually waste: but it hath been brought forth out of the nations, and they shall all of them dwell securely in it.

Zechariah 9:11
Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

Zechariah 9:12
Return to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope, I will render thee double as I declare today.

Isaiah 24:21
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