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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory. |
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