Book of Isaiah bible study chapters 13 through 24

            Here is the second part of the book of Isaiah bible study taking on the next twelve chapters. There are definitely end times prophecies in here, such as the destruction of Damascus and one on Egypt plus the other prophecies many of which are of a similar tone but for different lands. This is a continuation of the first bible study, which covers the first 12 chapters, and a link to that can be found here

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In Isaiah chapter 13 are prophecies concerning Babylon and judgment that would befall it, concerning its destruction which would be fulfilled much later during Judah’s captivity, and also the end times Babylon is also mentioned

(Isaiah 13:1)  The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

(Isaiah 13:2)  On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

(Isaiah 13:3)  I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

(Isaiah 13:4)  The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.

(Isaiah 13:5)  They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

(Isaiah 13:6)  Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

(Isaiah 13:7)  Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.

(Isaiah 13:8)  They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

(Isaiah 13:9)  Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

(Isaiah 13:10)  For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

(Isaiah 13:11)  I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.

(Isaiah 13:12)  I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

(Isaiah 13:13)  Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

(Isaiah 13:14)  And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.

(Isaiah 13:15)  Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

(Isaiah 13:16)  Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

(Isaiah 13:17)  Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

(Isaiah 13:18)  Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.

(Isaiah 13:19)  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

(Isaiah 13:20)  It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

(Isaiah 13:21)  But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.

(Isaiah 13:22)  Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.

Chapter 14 of Isaiah is a mixture concerning the raising and restoration of Israel after judgment and the fall of Satan (Lucifer from heaven) and other prophecies against nations such as Philistia

(Isaiah 14:1)  For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

(Isaiah 14:2)  And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.

(Isaiah 14:3)  When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

(Isaiah 14:4)  you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!

(Isaiah 14:5)  The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,

(Isaiah 14:6)  that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

(Isaiah 14:7)  The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.

(Isaiah 14:8)  The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.'

(Isaiah 14:9)  Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.

(Isaiah 14:10)  All of them will answer and say to you: 'You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'

(Isaiah 14:11)  Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.

(Isaiah 14:12)  "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

(Isaiah 14:13)  You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;

(Isaiah 14:14)  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

(Isaiah 14:15)  But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

(Isaiah 14:16)  Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,

(Isaiah 14:17)  who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?'

(Isaiah 14:18)  All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;

(Isaiah 14:19)  but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot.

(Isaiah 14:20)  You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. "May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!

(Isaiah 14:21)  Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities."

(Isaiah 14:22)  "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," declares the LORD.

(Isaiah 14:23)  "And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.

(Isaiah 14:24)  The LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

(Isaiah 14:25)  that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder."

(Isaiah 14:26)  This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

(Isaiah 14:27)  For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

(Isaiah 14:28)  In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:

(Isaiah 14:29)  Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

(Isaiah 14:30)  And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay.

(Isaiah 14:31)  Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

(Isaiah 14:32)  What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."

Isaiah chapter 15 is a prophecy against Moab and the Moabites

(Isaiah 15:1)  An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.

(Isaiah 15:2)  He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn;

(Isaiah 15:3)  in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.

(Isaiah 15:4)  Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles.

(Isaiah 15:5)  My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;

(Isaiah 15:6)  the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.

(Isaiah 15:7)  Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows.

(Isaiah 15:8)  For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; her wailing reaches to Eglaim; her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

(Isa 15:9)  For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; for I will bring upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.

Isaiah chapter 16 contains more prophecies concerning Moab and the Moabites especially judgment against them but also some mercy towards refugees from Moab forced to flee

(Isaiah 16:1)  Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

(Isaiah 16:2)  Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

(Isaiah 16:3)  "Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive;

(Isaiah 16:4)  let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,

(Isaiah 16:5)  then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness."

(Isaiah 16:6)  We have heard of the pride of Moab-- how proud he is!-- of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right.

(Isaiah 16:7)  Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

(Isaiah 16:8)  For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.

(Isaiah 16:9)  Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased.

(Isaiah 16:10)  And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting.

(Isaiah 16:11)  Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.

(Isaiah 16:12)  And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

(Isaiah 16:13)  This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.

(Isaiah 16:14)  But now the LORD has spoken, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble."

Isaiah 17 is prophecy against Syria and Ephraim especially concerning the destruction of Damascus which will be very sudden happening in one single overnight from evening to dawn the next day

(Isaiah 17:1)  An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.

(Isaiah 17:2)  The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.

(Isaiah 17:3)  The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the LORD of hosts.

(Isaiah 17:4)  And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.

(Isaiah 17:5)  And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

(Isaiah 17:6)  Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten-- two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares the LORD God of Israel.

(Isaiah 17:7)  In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.

(Isaiah 17:8)  He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.

(Isaiah 17:9)  In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

(Isaiah 17:10)  For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,

(Isaiah 17:11)  though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.

(Isaiah 17:12)  Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!

(Isaiah 17:13)  The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.

(Isaiah 17:14)  At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.

Isaiah chapter 18 is an interesting prophecy of a distant land beyond the Cush river and an interesting people

(Isaiah 18:1)  Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush,

(Isaiah 18:2)  which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.

(Isaiah 18:3)  All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!

(Isaiah 18:4)  For thus the LORD said to me: "I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

(Isaiah 18:5)  For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.

(Isaiah 18:6)  They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

(Isaiah 18:7)  At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.

In Isaiah chapter 19 is prophecies against Egypt with plagues and destruction then the Lord will raise them up again and bless them

(Isaiah 19:1)  An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

(Isaiah 19:2)  And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against another and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom;

(Isaiah 19:3)  and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;

(Isaiah 19:4)  and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master, and a fierce king will rule over them, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

(Isaiah 19:5)  And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched,

(Isaiah 19:6)  and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.

(Isaiah 19:7)  There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched, will be driven away, and will be no more.

(Isaiah 19:8)  The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast a hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets on the water.

(Isaiah 19:9)  The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton.

(Isaiah 19:10)  Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed, and all who work for pay will be grieved.

(Isaiah 19:11)  The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?

(Isaiah 19:12)  Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

(Isaiah 19:13)  The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have made Egypt stagger.

(Isaiah 19:14)  The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

(Isaiah 19:15)  And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.

(Isaiah 19:16)  In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the LORD of hosts shakes over them.

(Isaiah 19:17)  And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose that the LORD of hosts has purposed against them.

(Isaiah 19:18)  In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.

(Isaiah 19:19)  In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

(Isaiah 19:20)  It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the LORD because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them.

(Isaiah 19:21)  And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them.

(Isaiah 19:22)  And the LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.

(Isaiah 19:23)  In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

(Isaiah 19:24)  In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

(Isaiah 19:25)  whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

In chapter 20 the Lord has Isaiah be naked and barefoot three years as a sign of captivity of Cush and Egypt by Assyria

(Isaiah 20:1)  In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it--

(Isaiah 20:2)  at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

(Isaiah 20:3)  Then the LORD said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,

(Isaiah 20:4)  so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.

(Isaiah 20:5)  Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.

In Isaiah chapter 21 is prophecy- an oracle concerning the wilderness and the sea and more prophecy on Babylon

(Isaiah 21:1)  The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

(Isaiah 21:2)  A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

(Isaiah 21:3)  Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

(Isaiah 21:4)  My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

(Isaiah 21:5)  They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!

(Isaiah 21:6)  For thus the Lord said to me: "Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees.

(Isaiah 21:7)  When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently."

(Isaiah 21:8)  Then he who saw cried out: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.

(Isaiah 21:9)  And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground."

(Isaiah 21:10)  O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.

(Isaiah 21:11)  The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?"

(Isaiah 21:12)  The watchman says: "Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again."

(Isaiah 21:13)  The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.

(Isaiah 21:14)  To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.

(Isaiah 21:15)  For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.

(Isaiah 21:16)  For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.

(Isaiah 21:17)  And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken."

In chapter 22 there are prophecies of the valley of vision against those who come against Israel God’s people

(Isaiah 22:1)  The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

(Isaiah 22:2)  you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.

(Isaiah 22:3)  All your leaders have fled together; without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.

(Isaiah 22:4)  Therefore I said: "Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

(Isaiah 22:5)  For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

(Isaiah 22:6)  And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

(Isaiah 22:7)  Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.

(Isaiah 22:8)  He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,

(Isaiah 22:9)  and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool,

(Isaiah 22:10)  and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

(Isaiah 22:11)  You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.

(Isaiah 22:12)  In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

(Isaiah 22:13)  and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

(Isaiah 22:14)  The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

(Isaiah 22:15)  Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:

(Isaiah 22:16)  What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?

(Isaiah 22:17)  Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you

(Isaiah 22:18)  and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house.

(Isaiah 22:19)  I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station.

(Isaiah 22:20)  In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

(Isaiah 22:21)  and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

(Isaiah 22:22)  And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

(Isaiah 22:23)  And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

(Isaiah 22:24)  And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

(Isaiah 22:25)  In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken."

Isaiah chapter 23 concerns varied prophecies against Tyre speaking of judgments but also restoration after 70 years elapse

(Isaiah 23:1)  The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.

(Isaiah 23:2)  Be still, O inhabitants of the coast; the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.

(Isaiah 23:3)  And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.

(Isaiah 23:4)  Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: "I have neither labored nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women."

(Isaiah 23:5)  When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.

(Isaiah 23:6)  Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coast!

(Isaiah 23:7)  Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?

(Isaiah 23:8)  Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?

(Isaiah 23:9)  The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

(Isaiah 23:10)  Cross over your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint anymore.

(Isaiah 23:11)  He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the LORD has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.

(Isaiah 23:12)  And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest."

(Isaiah 23:13)  Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

(Isaiah 23:14)  Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.

(Isaiah 23:15)  In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

(Isaiah 23:16)  "Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, that you may be remembered."

(Isaiah 23:17)  At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

(Isaiah 23:18)  Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the LORD. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD.

In chapter 24 judgments come against many people in fact, and even the heavens and such, which could even point to the great tribulation period

(Isaiah 24:1)  Behold, the LORD will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

(Isaiah 24:2)  And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

(Isaiah 24:3)  The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the LORD has spoken this word.

(Isaiah 24:4)  The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.

(Isaiah 24:5)  The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

(Isaiah 24:6)  Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

(Isaiah 24:7)  The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

(Isaiah 24:8)  The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

(Isaiah 24:9)  No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

(Isaiah 24:10)  The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.

(Isaiah 24:11)  There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.

(Isaiah 24:12)  Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.

(Isaiah 24:13)  For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

(Isaiah 24:14)  They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west.

(Isaiah 24:15)  Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

(Isaiah 24:16)  From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, "I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed."

(Isaiah 24:17)  Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

(Isaiah 24:18)  He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

(Isaiah 24:19)  The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken.

(Isaiah 24:20)  The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.

(Isaiah 24:21)  On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.

(Isaiah 24:22)  They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.

(Isaiah 24:23)  Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.

For the next eleven chapters of Isaiah, including chapters 25 through 35 with the prophecies and promises that they contain please go to this link

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/book-of-isaiah-bible-study-chapters-25-through-35/10200810780325405

Isaiah in these chapters speaks of judgments and such against various people, many of these have not even taken place and will towards the tribulations so these are worth studying too to learn from. God is merciful to send prophets like Isaiah to relay His messages to His people. Isaiah would prophesy the coming of Jesus and how He would give His life for us(chapter 53 and other places in Isaiah). Jesus gave His life willingly and lovingly so we could then be atoned for our sins and be restored to relationship with God the Father (as well as Jesus, of course) and there is NOTHING like a relationship with God, nothing that can compare with it or to it. I am now including a prayer which you can use that will invite Jesus into your heart for the start of this love relationship or even to return to it if you have drifted away for any reason. Please pray this prayer with me:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours