Isaiah 24
Judgment on the Earth
1 Behold, the Lord alays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants. 2And the people will be like the priest, the servant like his master, the female servant like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the bcreditor like the debtor. 3The earth will be completely laid waste and completely plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word. 4The cearth dries up and crumbles away, the mainland dries out and crumbles away, the dexalted of the people of the earth dwindle. 5The earth is also edefiled ▼▼Lit under
by its inhabitants, for they violated laws, altered statutes, and gbroke the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore, a hcurse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer for their guilt. Therefore, the iinhabitants of the earth decrease in number, and few people are left. 7 The jnew wine mourns,
The vine decays,
All the joyful-hearted sigh.
8 The kjoy of tambourines ceases,
The noise of revelers stops,
The joy of the harp ceases.
9 They do not drink wine with song;
lIntoxicating drink is mbitter to those who drink it.
10 The ncity of chaos is broken down;
oEvery house is shut up so that no one may enter.
11 There is an poutcry in the streets concerning the wine;
qAll joy ▼
▼Lit is darkened
turns to gloom. The joy of the earth is banished.
12 Desolation is left in the city
And the sgate is battered to ruins.
13 For tso it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples,
As the ▼
▼Lit striking
shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the grape harvest is over.
14 vThey raise their voices, they shout for joy;
They cry out from the ▼
▼Lit sea
west concerning the majesty of the Lord. 15 Therefore xglorify the Lord in the ▼
▼Lit region of light
east, The zname of the Lord, the God of Israel,
In the ▼
▼Or islands
abcoastlands of the sea. 16 From the acends of the earth we hear songs: “ adGlory to the Righteous One,”
But I say, “ ▼
▼Meaning uncertain
I am finished! I am finished! Woe to me! The aftreacherous deal treacherously,
And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
17 agTerror and pit and snare
▼
▼Lit Are upon you
Confront you, you inhabitant of the earth. 18 Then it will be that the one who flees the sound of terror will fall into the pit,
And the one who ▼
▼Lit goes up from the midst of
climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; For the ajwindows ▼
▼Lit from the height; i.e., heaven
above are opened, and the alfoundations of the earth shake. 19 amThe earth is broken apart,
The earth is ansplit through,
The earth is shaken violently.
20 The earth aotrembles like a heavy drinker
And sways like a hut,
For its apwrongdoing is heavy upon it,
And it will fall, aqnever to rise again.
21 So it will happen on that day,
That the Lord will arpunish the rebellious ▼
▼Lit host
atangels of ▼▼Lit the height in the height
heaven on high, And the avkings of the earth on earth.
22 They will be gathered together
Like awprisoners in the ▼
▼Lit pit
dungeon, And will be confined in prison;
And after many days they will aybe punished.
23 Then the azmoon will be ashamed and the sun be put to shame,
For the baLord of armies will reign on bbMount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And His glory will be before His elders.
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