What does Isaiah 24:17 mean?
This begins Isaiah's description of the Lord's final judgment against all sinfulness in heaven and on earth. Isaiah has mourned (Isaiah 24:16) because of the traitorous, betraying sin of his people. The last judgment is now coming because of this willful, stubborn rebellion against the Lord: refusal to submit to Him or His ways (Isaiah 24:16).The prophet warns the inhabitants of the earth who have survived judgment thus far: the end is coming for them. This end is full of dread and terror. Isaiah provides little detail about what form this will take. Instead, he gives a sense of what the Lord's judgment will feel like for those who experience it. There can be no mistaking the deeply ominous nature of Isaiah's description.