Isaiah 24

¹ Behold, Yahweh making void, the land, and evacuating it! And He denudes its surface, and scatters its dwellers. ² And it comes to be, as people, so priest, as servant, so his lord, as maid, so her mistress, as buyer, so seller, as borrowee, so borrower, as lender, so him to whom is lent. ³ Voided, yea voided shall be the land, and plundered, yea plundered shall be the ground. For the mouth of Yahweh speaks this word. ⁴ Mournful, disintegrated is the earth. Enfeebled, disintegrated is the habitance. Enfeebled are the heights of the people of the land, ⁵ and the land is polluted under its dwellers. For they trespass against the laws; they vary the statute; they annul the covenant eonian. ⁶ Therefore an imprecation devours the land, and dwellers in it are guilty. Therefore the dwellers are drained out of the land, and there remain but a bit of the mortals. ⁷ Mournful is the grape juice; enfeebled is the vine. Sigh does every rejoicing heart. ⁸ Cease does the elation of tambourines. Left off is the tumult of the joyous. Cease does the elation of the harp. ⁹ Ashamed, they are drinking no wine. And the intoxicant is bitter to its drinkers. ¹⁰ Broken is every town - a chaos. Locked is every house against entry. ¹¹ Yelling over the wine is in the streets; the eventide is it for all rejoicing. Deported is all the elation of the land. ¹² And there remains in the city, desolation, and houses, forsaken, perish, and a tumult is pounding the gate. ¹³ Thus shall all become within the land: Amidst the peoples, as the after-gleaning of an olive tree, as clean-gleanings, if the vintage is finished. ¹⁴ They, they shall lift up their voice. They shall jubilate together at the pomp of Yahweh. They shall shrill from the sea. ¹⁵ Therefore in the coastlands shall they glorify Yahweh. In the coastlands of the sea the name of Yahweh, the Elohim of Israel, is glorious. ¹⁶ From the wings of the land, psalms we hear: "Stateliness for the righteous." Yet I will say, "Leanness is mine! Leanness is mine! Alack is mine! The treacherous deal treacherously, and with treachery the treacherous deal treacherously." ¹⁷ Afraidness and a pit and a snare are on you, dweller of the land. ¹⁸ And it comes that the one fleeing from the awful sound shall fall into the pit. And the ascender from the midst of the pit shall be seized in a snare. For the crevices of the heights are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall quake. ¹⁹ Smashed by smashing is the earth. Quashed by quashing is the earth. Slipped by slipping is the earth. ²⁰ Swayed by swaying is the earth. And it staggers as a drunkard, and it wanders as a mariner, and its transgression is heavy upon it. And it falls, and is not proceeding to rise. ²¹ And it comes in that day, Yahweh will check over on the host of the height, in the height, and on the kings of the ground, on the ground, ²² and they are gathered, a gathering imprisoned in a crypt, and closed in an enclosure, and for many days they will be missing. ²³ And the brick will melt, and the wall will fall, for Yahweh of hosts is King in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and in front of His elders is He glorified.