Is 24:1Jehovah now makes the earth desolate and lays it waste; He distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants:
Is 24:2 As it is with the people, so will it be with the priest; / As it is with the servant, so will it be with the master; / As it is with the maid, so will it be with the mistress; / As it is with the buyer, so will it be with the seller; / As it is with the lender, so will it be with the borrower; / As it is with the creditor, so will it be with him to whom he gives credit.
Is 24:3 The earth will be utterly desolated / And utterly spoiled, / For Jehovah has spoken this word.
Is 24:4 The earth dries up and fades away; / The world languishes and fades away; / The exalted of the people of the earth languish.
Is 24:5 And the earth is polluted under the weight of its inhabitants; / For they have transgressed laws, they have violated statutes, / They have broken an eternal covenant.
Is 24:6 Therefore a curse devours the earth / And the inhabitants of it are held guilty; / Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, / And few men are left.
Is 24:7 The new wine mourns; the vine languishes; / All the merryhearted sigh.
Is 24:8 The mirth of the tambourines ceases; / The noise of those who exult stops; / The mirth of the lyre ceases.
Is 24:9 Men do not drink wine in song; / Liquor is bitter to those who drink it.
Is 24:10 The city of chaos is broken down; / Every house is shut up that none may enter.
Is 24:11 A cry for wine is in the streets; / All joy is darkened; / The mirth of the land is departed.
Is 24:12 In the city desolation remains, / And the gate is crushed to ruins.
Is 24:13 For thus will it be in the midst of the earth, / Among the peoples: / Like the shaking of an olive tree, / Like the gleanings when the grape harvest is completed.
Is 24:14 They will lift up their voice; they will give a ringing shout; / Because of the majesty of Jehovah they will cry out from the west.
Is 24:15 Therefore in the east glorify Jehovah, / Even the name of Jehovah the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
Is 24:16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs: / Glory to the righteous One! / But I say, Leanness to me! Leanness to me! Woe to me! / The unfaithful deal unfaithfully! / Indeed the unfaithful deal most unfaithfully!
Is 24:17 Dread, pit, and snare / Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
Is 24:18 And he who flees from the sound of dread / Will fall into the pit, / And he who comes up out of the pit / Will be taken in the snare; / For the windows from on high are open, / And the foundations of the earth shake.
Is 24:19 The earth is broken asunder; / The earth is split through and through; / The earth is shaken violently.
Is 24:20 The earth staggers back and forth like a drunkard / And sways about like a field hut. / And its transgression weighs heavily upon it; / It will fall and will not rise again.
Is 24:21 And in that day Jehovah will punish / On high the host on high, / And the kings of the earth on the earth.
Is 24:22 And they will be gathered together, / Like prisoners gathered in a dungeon; / And they will be shut up in prison, / And after many days they will be punished.
Is 24:23 Then the moon will be abashed, and the sun will be ashamed; / For Jehovah of hosts will reign / In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, / And His glory will be before His elders.
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