AB - Isaiah - 24

24:1  Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare its surface, and scatter them that dwell therein.

24:2  And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

24:3  The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.

24:4  The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.

24:5  And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting covenant.

24:6  Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because its inhabitants have sinned; therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.

24:7  The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.

24:8  The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

24:9  They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.

24:10  All the city has become desolate; one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

24:11  There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.

24:12  And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

24:13  All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,

24:14  these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together in the glory of the Lord; the water of the sea shall be troubled.

24:15  Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.

24:16  O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope for the godly; but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that abhor the law.

24:17  Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.

24:18  And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare; for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,

24:19  the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.

24:20  It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.

24:21  And God shall bring His hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.

24:22  And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a stronghold; after many generations they shall be visited.

24:23  And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Zion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before His elders.