Isaiæ 24
1 Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram, et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem eius, et disperget habitatores eius.
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 Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos: et sicut servus, sic dominus eius: sicut ancilla, sic domina eius: sicut emens, sic ille qui vendit: sicut foenerator, sic is qui mutuum accipit: sicut qui repetit, sic qui debet.
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 Dissipatione dissipabitur terra, et direptione praedabitur. Dominus enim locutus est verbum hoc.
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 Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est: defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terrae.
[Everything on] the earth will dry up and die [DOU]; its important people will become weak and unimportant.
5 Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis: quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt ius, dissipaverunt foedus sempiternum.
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 Propter hoc maledictio vorabit terram, et peccabunt habitatores eius: ideoque insanient cultores eius, et relinquentur homines pauci.
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 Luxit vindemia, infirmata est vitis, ingemuerunt omnes qui laetabantur corde.
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 Cessavit gaudium tympanorum, quievit sonitus laetantium, conticuit dulcedo citharae.
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 Cum cantico non bibent vinum: amara erit potio bibentibus illam.
People will no longer sing while they drink wine, and [all] their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
10 Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus nullo introeunte.
[Towns and] cities will be desolate; every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.
11 Clamor erit super vino in plateis: deserta est omnia laetitia: translatum est gaudium terrae.
[Mobs] will gather in the streets, wanting wine; no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.
12 Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas.
Cities will be ruined and [all] their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
13 Quia haec erunt in medio terrae, in medio populorum: quomodo si paucae olivae, quae remanserunt, excutiantur ex olea: et racemi, cum fuerit finita vindemia.
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 Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt: cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.
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 Propter hoc in doctrinis glorificate Dominum: in insulis maris nomen Domini Dei 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 A finibus terrae laudes audivimus, gloriam iusti. Et dixi: Secretum meum mihi, secretum meum mihi, vae mihi: praevaricantes praevaricati sunt, et praevaricatione transgressorum praevaricati sunt.
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 Formido, et fovea, et laqueus super te, qui habitator es terrae.
You people all over the earth, you will be terrified, and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.
18 Et erit: Qui fugerit a voce formidinis, cadet in foveam: et qui se explicaverit de fovea, tenebitur laqueo: quia cataractae de excelsis apertae sunt, et concutientur fundamenta terrae.
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 Confractione confringetur terra, contritione conteretur terra, commotione commovebitur terra,
The earth will split apart and be shattered; it will shake violently.
20 agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius, et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis: et gravabit eam iniquitas sua, et corruet, et non adiiciet ut resurgat.
[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 Et erit: In die illa visitabit Dominus super militiam caeli in excelso: et super reges terrae, qui sunt super terram.
At that time, Yahweh will punish the [wicked] powerful beings in the skies and the wicked kings on the earth.
22 Et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere: et post multos dies visitabuntur.
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 Et erubescet luna, et confundetur sol, cum regnaverit Dominus exercituum in monte Sion, et in Ierusalem, et in conspectu senum suorum fuerit glorificatus.
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].
