Isaiah 24

Isaiah

24 ¹Behold, the LORD is emptying the earth and making it waste,
and He twists its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

²And it will be the same for the people, as it is with the priest;
the slave, as it is with his master;

the maid, as it is with her mistress;
the buyer, as it is with the seller;

the borrower, as it is with the lender;
the debtor, as it is with the creditor.

³The earth will be completely emptied
and totally plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourns, withers;
the world languishes, withers.
The haughty of the people of the earth languish.

⁵The earth is polluted beneath its inhabitants

for they have transgressed the laws,
they have changed the ordinance[1],
they have broken the everlasting covenant.

⁶Therefore, a curse consumes the earth,
and its inhabitants must bear their guilt.

Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men remain.

⁷The new wine mourns,
the vine languishes;

all who have rejoicing hearts sigh, ⁸the exultation of tambourines has ceased;
the roar of the jubilant has stopped, the exultation of the harp has ceased.

⁹No more do they drink wine with song;
strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

¹⁰The town of chaos is broken down.
Every house is shut, no one can enter.

¹¹In the streets, there is an outcry over the wine.
All rejoicing has grown dark;
the exultation of the earth is banished.

¹²Desolation remains in the city;
the gates are crushed to ruins.

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¹³For thus it will be in the midst of the earth,
among the peoples,

as when an olive tree is beaten,
as the gleanings after the grape harvest.

¹⁴They lift up their voices;
they sing gladly.

On account of the majesty of the LORD,
they cry out from the west.

¹⁵Therefore, glorify the LORD in the region of light,
in the coastlands of the sea—the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

¹⁶From the ends of the earth, we hear songs:

God’s covenant people

“Glory[2] to the Righteous One!”

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¹⁶But I say, “I waste away,
I waste away; woe is me!

For the traitors have betrayed;[3]
with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.

¹⁷O inhabitant of the earth—dread, and the pit,
and the snare are upon you.

¹⁸And it will come to pass,
he who flees from the noise of the dread will fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare,

for the windows of heaven are opened,
and the foundations of the earth tremble.

¹⁹The earth is completely broken,
the earth is altogether split
the earth totally shakes.

²⁰The earth[4] will reel to and fro like a drunkard;
it sways like a hut.

Its iniquity will weigh it down, that it will fall
and will not rise again.

²¹And on that day the LORD will punish the host of high ones above
and the kings of the earth below.

²²And they will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit,
and they will be shut up in prison and after many days they will be visited.

²³The moon will be confounded
and the sun ashamed.

For the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion
and in Jerusalem, in glory, and before His elders.”