Isaiah 24

1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.

2 And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.

And there shalbe like people, like Priest, and like seruaunt, like master, like maide, like mistresse, like bier, like seller, like lender, like borower, like giuer, like taker to vsurie.

3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.

The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.

4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened.

5 The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

The earth also deceiueth, because of the inhabitantes thereof: for they transgressed the lawes: they changed the ordinances, and brake the euerlasting couenant.

6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe men are left.

7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.

8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.

9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it.

10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.

11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away.

12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

Surely thus shall it bee in the middes of the earth, among the people, as the shaking of an oliue tree, and as the grapes when the vintage is ended.

14 But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.

They shall lift vp their voyce: they shall shout for the magnificence of the Lord: they shall reioyce from the sea.

15 Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lord God of Israel, in the yles of the sea.

16 From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

From the vttermost part of the earth wee haue heard praises, euen glory to the iust, and I sayd, My leanesse, my leanesse, woe is mee: the transgressours haue offended: yea, the transgressours haue grieuously offended.

17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

Feare, and the pitte, and the snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

And hee that fleeth from the noyse of the feare, shall fall into the pit: and he that commeth vp out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the windowes from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth doe shake.

19 The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.

The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth is mooued exceedingly.

20 The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.

The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.

21 And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.

And in that day shall the Lord visite the hoste aboue that is on hie, euen the Kinges of the world that are vpon the earth.

22 And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.

And they shall be gathered together, as the prisoners in the pit: and they shall be shut vp in the prison, and after many daies shall they be visited.

23 Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

Then the moone shall be abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in mount Zion and in Ierusalem: and glory shalbe before his ancient men.