LEB - Isaiah - 24

24:1  Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste and is about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.

24:2  And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends.

24:3  The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.

24:4  The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,

24:5  and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken the everlasting covenant.

24:6  Therefore a curse devours the earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn, and ⌞few men are left⌟.

24:7  The new wine dries up; the vine languishes. All the merry of heart sigh;

24:8  the joy of the tambourine has stopped. The noise of the jubilant has ceased; the joy of the lyre has stopped.

24:9  They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

24:10  The city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut ⌞so that no one can enter⌟;

24:11  there is an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into ⌞darkness⌟; the joy of the earth disappears.

24:12  Desolation is left in the city; the gate is crushed into a state of ruin.

24:13  For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth, among the nations, like the beating of an olive tree, like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end.

24:14  They lift up their voices; they sing for joy; they shout out from the west over the majesty of Yahweh.

24:15  Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, the name of Yahweh the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.

24:16  We hear songs from the ⌞edge⌟ of the earth: “Glory to the righteous one!” But I say, “Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! The treacherous ones deal treacherously, and the treacherous ones deal treacherously with treachery!”

24:17  Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, inhabitants of the earth!

24:18  And this shall happen: The one who flees from the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and the one who goes up from ⌞inside the pit⌟ shall be caught in the snare, for the windows from heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

24:19  The earth is utterly broken; the earth is torn asunder; the earth is shaken violently.

24:20  The earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard, and it sways like a hut, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it falls and does not rise again.

24:21  And this shall happen on that day: Yahweh will punish the host of heaven in heaven, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

24:22  And they will be gathered in a gathering, like a prisoner ⌞in⌟ a pit. And they will be shut ⌞in⌟ a prison and be punished ⌞after⌟ many days.

24:23  And the full moon will be ashamed and the sun will be ashamed, for Yahweh of hosts will rule on ⌞Mount Zion⌟ and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory.