Isaiah 33:9
The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Isaiah 33 belongs to prophecies concerning Israel, with Israel also serving as a type of conditions in the Christian age. It stands in that part of Isaiah which is filled with prophecy relating almost wholly to the days of the Christian dispensation. It looks forward to the last days and to God's judgments upon the earth. It deals with the events marking the closing days of this world of sin and with the bringing in and setting up of the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom which shall not be destroyed.
Its devastation belongs to the last trials preceding the Lord's arising to judgment. It is among the chapter's descriptions of the Lord coming to defend Jerusalem, and because the prophecy has a millennial connection its language is not to be taken literally. It describes the earth's desolation under the curse brought by its inhabitants' transgression, in which the land mourns and fades and fertile regions such as Lebanon, Sharon, Bashan, and Carmel are ruined or stripped of their fruit.
It describes the wasting of the earth in the final conflagration that makes the lake of fire, a devouring and unquenchable fire like a fiery oven and furnace where the wicked are consumed and burned up root and branch and cease to live in the second death. That same fire afterward goes out so that the saints afterward dwell on the new earth in the same place where the lake of fire was. It describes people as rebellious children who refuse to hear the Lord's law, in contrast to the obedient children believers become through receiving adoption in Christ.