Isaiah 24
1 LEUM GOD El ac fah kunausla faclu ac filiya in wanginla ma oan fac. El ac furalik fin acn uh ac akfahsryelik mwet fac.
Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth. He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert and scatter its people.
2 Mwet nukewa fah pulakin kain in ongoiya sefanna — mwet tol ac mwet uh, mwet kohs ac mwet kacto, mwet kuka ac mwet moli, mwet ngusr mani ac mwet sang mani, mwet kasrup ac mwet sukasrup.
He will scatter everyone— priests and common people, servants and their masters, maids and their mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, people who owe money and people who are owed money.
3 Faclu ac fah sikiyukla ac mokutkuti. LEUM GOD pa fahk ouinge, na ac orek oana ma El fahk.
Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth; everything valuable will be destroyed. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it.
4 Faclu pulamlamla ac uli; faclu nufon ac munasla. Kewana faclu ac yen engyeng uh ac mwesri.
[Everything on] the earth will dry up and die [DOU]; its important people will become weak and unimportant.
5 Mwet uh aktaekyala faclu ke elos kunausla ma sap lun God, ac ke elos siakos wuleang se su El orala in oan nwe tok.
The earth has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws; they have rejected the agreement that he intended to last forever.
6 Ouinge God El selngawi faclu. Mwet faclu elos eis mwatan orekma lalos. Pueni na mwet moul lula.
Therefore, [Yahweh] will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and [only a] few people will remain [alive].
7 Ima in grape uh mwella, ac fahsr in lisr wain uh. Elos nukewa su engan meet, inge elos asor.
The grapevines will wither, and there will be no [grapes to make] wine. All [the people] who were previously happy will then groan and mourn.
8 Wanginla pusren on kato ke harp ac drum.
People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines, people will no longer play joyfully on their harps, and people will no longer shout noisily [during their celebrations].
9 Wanginla on ac engan ke wain; emah uh mwen selos.
People will no longer sing while they drink wine, and [all] their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
10 Ma nukewa fohsak in siti uh, ac lohm nukewa lakiyuki, mwet koluk in tia utyak.
[Towns and] cities will be desolate; every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.
11 Mwet uh wowo fin inkanek uh ke sripen wanginla wain. Engan ac pwar wanginla na pwaye liki facl se inge.
[Mobs] will gather in the streets, wanting wine; no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.
12 Siti uh musalla, ac mutunpot we kunausyukla.
Cities will be ruined and [all] their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
13 Ac fah pa inge ma ac sikyak nu ke mutunfacl nukewa fin faclu. Ac fah oana ke safla pacl in kosrani — wanginla fahko ke sak olive, ac grape nukewa kinkinla.
It will be like that all over the earth: [there will only be a few people still alive], like what happens when [workers] beat all the olives off a tree [and there are only a few left], [or] when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left [on the vines].
14 Elos su painmoulla ac fah alullul ke engan. Elos su muta in mutunfacl roto ac fah fahk lupan fulatlana lun LEUM GOD,
But [those who are left alive] will sing joyfully; people [in nations] to the west [of Israel] will declare that Yahweh is very great;
15 ac elos su muta in mutunfacl kutulap fah kaksakunul. Mwet su muta wekof uh fah kaksakin LEUM GOD lun Israel.
people in nations to the east [of Israel will also] praise Yahweh [MTY]; in countries across the sea, people will praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
16 Liki acn loessulana faclu kut lohng pusren on in kaksakin God lun suwoswos. Tusruktu wangin finsrak luk! Foroti insiuk! Mwet kutasrik tia tui in orek kutasrik, ac sulallal lalos uh koluk liki na meet ah.
We will hear [people] in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to [Yahweh], the [truly] righteous one. But [now], I am [SYN] very sad. Weep for me, [because] I have become thin and weak. Terrible things are happening! Treacherous [people still] betray/deceive others everywhere [DOU].
17 Porongeyu, mwet nukewa! Mwe aksangeng, luf loal, ac sruhf oan soanekowos.
You people all over the earth, you will be terrified, and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.
18 Kutena mwet su srike in kaingla liki mwe aksangeng inge ac fah putatla nu in luf loal, ac kutena su kaingla liki luf sac ac fah sruoh ke sie sruhf. Af upa ac fah kahkla liki kusrao, ac pwelung lun faclu fah kusrusryak.
Those who [try to] flee because they are terrified will fall into [deep] pits, and those who climb out of the pits will be caught by traps/snares. The sky will split open and torrents [SIM] [of rain will fall]; the foundations of the earth will shake.
19 Faclu fah srasrelik ac muliplipi, ac ikakelik.
The earth will split apart and be shattered; it will shake violently.
20 Faclu sifacna fah tukulkul oana mwet sruhi se, wactot wactma oana sie lac lohm in sie paka. Faclu sringelik ke koluk la; ac fah ikori ac tiana sifil tuyak.
[It will be as though] the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk; it will shake like [SIM] a hut [shakes in a windstorm]. It will collapse and not [be able to] rise again, [because] the guilt of the people who rebel [against Yahweh] is very great.
21 Pacl se ac tuku ke LEUM GOD El ac kalyei ku lun acn lucng, ac mwet kol lun faclu.
At that time, Yahweh will punish the [wicked] powerful beings in the skies and the wicked kings on the earth.
22 God El fah orani tokosra uh nu sie in iktokeni oana mwet kapir in sie luf loal. El fah kalelosi in presin nwe ke sun pacl in kalya nu selos.
They will [all] be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon/pit. They will be shut/locked in that dungeon/pit, and later they will be punished.
23 Malem ac fah lohsrla, ac faht ac fah tia sifil kalem, mweyen LEUM GOD Kulana El ac fah tokosra. El fah leum in Jerusalem fin Eol Zion, ac mwet kol lun mwet uh ac fah liye wolana lal.
At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened; [it will be as though] they are ashamed [in the presence of] Yahweh, because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously (on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem), in the presence of the leaders [of his people].
