Isaiah 24

1 Watch out! The Lord is going to destroy the earth, to make it totally devastated. He's going to rip up the surface of the earth and scatter its inhabitants.

behold LORD to empty [the] land: country/planet and to waste her and to twist face: surface her and to scatter to dwell her

2 It will happen the same for everybody—whether people or priests, servants or their masters, maids or their mistresses, buyers or sellers, lenders or borrowers, creditors or debtors.

and to be like/as people like/as priest like/as servant/slave like/as lord his like/as maidservant like/as lady her like/as to buy like/as to sell like/as to borrow like/as to borrow like/as to lend like/as as which to exact in/on/with him

3 The earth will be completely laid waste and looted. This is what the Lord has said.

to empty to empty [the] land: country/planet and to plunder to plunder for LORD to speak: speak [obj] [the] word [the] this

4 The earth dries up and withers away; the world shrivels up and withers away, the high and mighty people shrivel up along with the earth.

to mourn to wither [the] land: country/planet to weaken to wither world to weaken height people [the] land: country/planet

5 The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.

and [the] land: country/planet to pollute underneath: under to dwell her for to pass: trespass instruction to pass statute: decree to break covenant forever: enduring

6 That is why a curse is destroying the earth. The people suffer because of their guilt. The inhabitants of the earth are burned up and only a few survive.

upon so oath to eat land: country/planet and be guilty to dwell in/on/with her upon so to scorch to dwell land: country/planet and to remain human little

7 The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.

to mourn new wine to weaken vine to sigh all glad heart

8 The happy sound of tambourines is over; the noise of the party-goers has stopped; the delightful harp music has finished,

to cease rejoicing tambourine to cease roar jubilant to cease rejoicing lyre

9 People don't sing any more as they drink wine, and the beer tastes bitter.

in/on/with song not to drink wine to provoke strong drink to/for to drink him

10 The chaotic city is falling apart; every house is barred shut to keep others out.

to break town formlessness to shut all house: home from to come (in): come

11 Crowds on the street are shouting, demanding to have wine. Joy turns into darkness. There's no happiness left on earth.

outcry upon [the] wine in/on/with outside to grow dark all joy to reveal: remove rejoicing [the] land: country/planet

12 The city is in a horrible state of ruin; its gates have been broken down.

to remain in/on/with city horror: destroyed and ruin to crush gate

13 This is the way it's going to be all throughout the earth among the nations—only a few olives are left after the tree is shaken, only a few grapes are left to be gleaned after the harvest.

for thus to be in/on/with entrails: among [the] land: country/planet in/on/with midst [the] people like/as shaking olive like/as gleaning if: until to end: finish vintage

14 These survivors shout aloud and sing for joy. From the west they praise the Lord's majesty.

they(masc.) to lift: loud voice their to sing in/on/with pride LORD to cry out from sea: west

15 From the east they glorify the Lord; from the sea shores they praise the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

upon so in/on/with flame to honor: honour LORD in/on/with coastland [the] sea name LORD God Israel

16 We hear songs coming from the ends of the earth, singing, “Glory to the God who does right.” But I'm miserable, miserable. Pity me! Deceitful people go on betraying, again and again.

from wing [the] land: country/planet song to hear: hear beauty to/for righteous and to say wasting to/for me wasting to/for me woe! to/for me to act treacherously to act treacherously and treachery to act treacherously to act treacherously

17 Terrors and pit-traps and snares are waiting for you, people of the earth.

dread and pit and snare upon you to dwell [the] land: country/planet

18 Those who run away in terror will fall into a pit-trap, and those who escape from the pit-trap will be caught in a snare. Heaven's windows are opened; earth's foundations shake.

and to be [the] to flee from voice: sound [the] dread to fall: fall to(wards) [the] pit and [the] to ascend: rise from midst [the] pit to capture in/on/with snare for window from height to open and to shake foundation land: country/planet

19 The earth is completely broken up; the earth is ripped apart, the earth is violently shaken.

to shatter to shatter [the] land: country/planet to split to split land: country/planet to shake to shake land: country/planet

20 The earth staggers to and fro like a drunk, and sways this way and that like a shelter. The guilt of its rebelliousness weighs heavily on it, and it collapses—it won't rise again.

to shake to shake land: country/planet like/as drunken and to wander like/as lodge and to honor: heavy upon her transgression her and to fall: fall and not to add: again to arise: rise

21 At that time the Lord will punish all the high heavenly beings and the kings of the earth.

and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to reckon: punish LORD upon army [the] height in/on/with height and upon king [the] land: planet upon [the] land: planet

22 They will be brought together, prisoners in a pit. They will be imprisoned, and eventually they will be punished.

and to gather collecting prisoner upon pit and to shut upon locksmith and from abundance day to reckon: punish

23 The moon will be embarrassed and the sun will be ashamed, for the Lord Almighty will reign in glory on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem in the presence of its leaders.

and be ashamed [the] moon and be ashamed [the] heat for to reign LORD Hosts in/on/with mountain: mount Zion and in/on/with Jerusalem and before old: elder his glory