Isa 24:4-6 | ESV | STEP | The earth mourns and withers ; the world languishes and withers ; the highest people of the earth languish .

Isaiah 24:4-6

4 ^aThe earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and withers;
the highest people of the earth languish.
5 The earth lies ^bdefiled
under its inhabitants;
for ^cthey have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore ^da curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants ^esuffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.