Isaiah

¹ Behold, Yahweh empties the earth to destruction, eviscerates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

² And the people will be like the priest, the male slave like his master, the female slave like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

³ The earth will be completely emptied to destruction and completely plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.

⁴ The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the exalted of the people of the earth languish.

⁵ The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they trespassed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

⁶ Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who inhabit it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men remain.

⁷ The vine languishes; All the glad of heart sigh.

⁸ The rumbling of those exulting stops; The joy of the harp ceases.

⁹ Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

¹⁰ Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

¹¹ All gladness turns to gloom. The joy of the earth is taken away into exile.

¹² And the gate is struck down to ruins.

¹³ As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.

¹⁴ They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of Yahweh.

¹⁵ The name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea.

¹⁶ But I say, “I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me! The treacherous deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

¹⁷ Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

¹⁸ And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the pitfall; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth quake.

¹⁹ The earth is split through; The earth is shaken violently.

²⁰ And it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall, never to rise again.

²¹ That Yahweh will punish the host of heights on high, And the kings of the earth on earth.

²² Like prisoners in the pit, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.

²³ For Yahweh of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory will be before His elders.