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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the LORD has spoken this message. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth's inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The joyful tambourines have ceased. The noise of the jubilant has stopped. The joyful lyre has ceased. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They no longer sing and drink wine; beer is bitter to those who drink 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 for wine. All joy grows dark; earth's rejoicing goes into exile. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For this is how it will be on earth 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 sing out; they proclaim in the west the majesty of the LORD. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore, in the east honor the LORD! In the coasts and islands of the west honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16From the ends of the earth we hear songs: The Splendor of the Righteous One. But I said, "I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me." The treacherous act treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Panic, pit, and trap await you who dwell on the earth. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Whoever flees at the sound of panic will fall into a pit, and whoever escapes from the pit will be caught in a trap. For the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth are shaken. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The earth is completely devastated; the earth is split open; the earth is violently shaken. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut. Earth's rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21On that day the LORD will punish the army of the heights in the heights and the kings of the ground on the ground. |
| 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; after many days they will be punished. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23The moon will be put to shame and the sun disgraced, because the LORD of Armies will reign as king on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and he will display his glory in the presence of his elders. |
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