Isaiah 24 is often described as Isaiah’s apocalypse! For it describes a future devastation of the earth by God: “The Lord is going to lay waste the earth… and the devastation will affect all groups and classes equally… the earth will be totally plundered… a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt… cities lie desolate… terror and pit and snare await you O people of the earth… the earth reels like a drunkard… so heavy is the guilt of its rebellion… in that day the Lord will punish… kings will be herded like prisoners bound in a dungeon.”
