Isaiah 24:1-8 ▼

1 Behold, YHWH is emptying the earth, and is making it waste; and He has twisted its surface and has scattered its dwellers.

2 And it will be—as with the people so with the priest, as with the servant so with his master, as with the maidservant 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 lender of it.

3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly plundered, for YHWH has spoken this word.

4 The earth has mourned and has faded away; the world has languished and has faded away; the haughty have languished people of the earth.

5 And the earth is defiled under its dwellers, because they have transgressed the laws—they have passed ovr the decree, they have broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Upon thus a curse has consumed the earth, and those who dwell upon it are found guilty; thus those dwelling in the earth have been burned, and few men have been left.

7 The new wine has failed, the vine has languished; all the joyful of heart have groaned.

8 The joy of the tambourines has ceased; the noise of the jubilant ones has ended; the joy of the harp has ceased.