Isaiah 24

1 Here! Yahweh [is] about to lay waste the earth and [is] about to devastate it and he will twist surface its and he will scatter inhabitants its.

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it will be as the people as the priest as the servant as master his as the maidservant as mistress her as the buyer as the seller as the lender as the borrower as the creditor as [the one] who a creditor [is] in him.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

3 Certainly - it will be laid waste the earth and certainly - it will be plundered for Yahweh he has spoken the word this.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.

4 It has dried up it has withered the earth it has languished it has withered [the] world they have languished [the] noble[s] of [the] people of the earth.

The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

5 And the earth it has been polluted under inhabitants its for they have transgressed laws they have overstepped [the] decree they have broken [the] covenant of perpetuity.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

6 There-fore a curse it has consumed [the] earth and they have been held guilty [the] inhabitants in it there-fore they have diminished [the] inhabitants of [the] earth and it will be left humankind of smallness.

Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

7 It has dried up new wine it has languished [the] vine they have groaned all [the people] joyful of heart.

The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh.

8 It has ceased [the] gaiety of tambourines it has stopped [the] uproar of jubilant [people] it has ceased [the] gaiety of [the] harp.

The delight of timbrels ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

9 With song not people will drink wine it will be bitter strong drink to [those who] drink it.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

10 It has been broken [the] town of formlessness it has been shut up every house from entering.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

11 An outcry on wine [will be] in the streets it has become evening all gladness it has departed [the] gaiety of the earth.

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the delight of the land is gone.

12 It has remained in the city desolation and ruin it will be crushed [the] gate.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

13 For thus it will be in [the] midst of the earth in among the peoples like [the] beating of an olive tree like gleanings if it has come to an end [the] grape harvest.

When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They they will lift up voice their they will shout for joy in [the] majesty of Yahweh they will cry aloud from [the] west.

They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 There-fore in the east glorify Yahweh in [the] islands of the sea [the] name of Yahweh [the] God of Israel.

Wherefore glorify all of you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

16 From [the] extremity of the earth songs we have heard splendor [belongs] to the righteous [one] and I said leanness [belongs] to me leanness [belongs] to me woe! to me [those who] act treacherously they act treacherously and treachery [those who] act treacherously they act treacherously.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

17 Dread and pit and snare [are] on you O inhabitant of the earth.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

18 And it will be the [one who] flees from [the] sound of the dread he will fall into the pit and the [one who] goes up from [the] midst of the pit he will be caught in snare for windows from a high place they have been opened and they have shaken [the] foundations of [the] earth.

And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

19 Utterly it has been broken the earth utterly it has been split through [the] earth certainly it has been shaken [the] earth.

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

20 Wildly it will stagger [the] earth like drunkard and it will sway like hut and it will be heavy on it transgression its and it will fall and not it will repeat to rise.

The earth shall reel back and forth like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21 And it will be in the day that he will visit [judgment] Yahweh on [the] host of the height in the height[s] and on [the] kings of the earth on the earth.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 And they will be gathered a gathering prisoner[s] to a pit and they will be shut up at a prison and from an abundance of days they will be visited.

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

23 And it will be abashed the moon and it will be ashamed the sun for he will reign Yahweh of hosts on [the] mountain of Zion and in Jerusalem and before elders his glory.

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.