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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 24
24:1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and
turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.
24:2 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.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the
LORD has spoken this word.
24:4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades
away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because
they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting
covenant.
24:6 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.
24:7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted
do sigh.
24:8 The delight of timbrels ceases, the noise of them that rejoice
ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter
to them that drink it.
24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up,
that no man may come in.
24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened,
the delight of the land is gone.
24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
destruction.
24:13 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.
24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty
of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 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.
24:16 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.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant
of the earth.
24:18 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.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved,
the earth is moved exceedingly.
24:20 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.
24:21 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.
24:22 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.
24:23 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.
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