Isaie 24

¹Behold our Lord shall dissipate the earth, and make it naked, and afflict the face thereof, and disperse the inhabitants thereof.

²And as the people, so shall the priest be: & as the servant, so his master: as the handmaid, so her mistress: as the buyer, so he that selleth: as the lender, so he that borroweth: as he that asketh his due, so he that oweth.

³With dissipation shall the earth be dissipated, & with spoil it shall be spoiled: for our Lord hath spoken this word.

⁴The earth hath mourned, & fallen away, and is weakened: the world is fallen away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.

⁵And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, changed right, dissipated the everlasting covenant.

⁶For this cause shall malediction devour the earth, & the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore the dwellers therein shall be mad, & few men shall be left.

⁷The vintage hath mourned, the wine is weakened, all have sighed that rejoiced in heart.

⁸The joy of timbrels hath ceased, the sound of them that rejoice is left off, the sweetness of the harp is silent.

⁹They shall not drink wine with song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut, no man goeth in.

¹¹There shall be crying for the wine in the streets: all mirth is left: the joy of the earth is carried away.

¹²Desolation is left in the city, & calamity shall oppress the gates.

¹³Because these things shall be in the midst of the earth, in the midst of peoples, in like manner as if a few olives, which are remaining, should be shaken out of the olive tree; and grapes, when the vintage is ended.

¹⁴These shall lift up their voice, and praise: when our Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea.

¹⁵For this cause in doctrines glorify our Lord: in the isles of the sea the name of our Lord the God of Israel.

¹⁶From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to me, my secret to me, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and by the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.

¹⁷Fear, and pit, and snare upon thee, that art inhabiter of the earth.

¹⁸And it shall be: He that shall fly from the voice of fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be held in the snare: because the floodgates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

¹⁹With breaking shall the earth be broken, with bruising shall the earth be bruised, with moving shall the earth be moved,

²⁰with shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be taken away as the tabernacle of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not add to rise again.

²¹And it shall be: In that day our Lord will visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, that are upon the earth.

²²And they shall be gathered together as the gathering of a bundle into the lake, and shall be shut there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.

²³And the moon shall be confounded, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, & shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.