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1 Behold, the Lord will lay waste to the earth, and he will strip it, and he will afflict its surface, and he will scatter its inhabitants. 2 And this shall be: as with the people, so with the priest; and as with the servant, so with his master; as with the handmaid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor. 3 The earth will be utterly devastated and utterly plundered. For the Lord has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourned, and slipped away, and languished. The world slipped away; the loftiness of the people of the earth was weakened. 5 And the earth was corrupted by its inhabitants. For they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have dissipated the everlasting covenant. Isaiah 24:1-5, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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