| Isa. 24:1 |
Jehovah now makes the earth desolate and lays it waste; He distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants: |
| Isa. 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. |
| Isa. 24:3 |
The earth will be utterly desolated / And utterly spoiled, / For Jehovah has spoken this word. |
| Isa. 24:4 |
The earth dries up and fades away; / The world languishes and fades away; / The exalted of the people of the earth languish. |
| Isa. 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. |
| Isa. 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. |
| Isa. 24:7 |
The new wine mourns; the vine languishes; / All the merryhearted sigh. |
| Isa. 24:8 |
The mirth of the tambourines ceases; / The noise of those who exult stops; / The mirth of the lyre ceases. |
| Isa. 24:9 |
[Men] do not drink wine in song; / Liquor is bitter to those who drink it. |
| Isa. 24:10 |
The city of chaos is broken down; / Every house is shut up that none may enter. |
| Isa. 24:11 |
A cry for wine is in the streets; / All joy is darkened; / The mirth of the land is departed. |
| Isa. 24:12 |
In the city desolation remains, / And the gate is crushed to ruins. |
| Isa. 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. |
| Isa. 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. |
| Isa. 24:15 |
Therefore in the east glorify Jehovah, / Even the name of Jehovah the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. |
| Isa. 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! |
| Isa. 24:17 |
Dread, pit, and snare / Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. |
| Isa. 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. |
| Isa. 24:19 |
The earth is broken asunder; / The earth is split through and through; / The earth is shaken violently. |
| Isa. 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. |
| Isa. 24:21 |
And in that day Jehovah will punish / On high the host on high, / And the kings of the earth on the earth. |
| Isa. 24:22 |
And they will be gathered together, / [Like] prisoners gathered in a dungeon; / And will be shut up in prison, / And after many days they will be punished. |
| Isa. 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. |