Esias 24

1 Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.

Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

2 And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

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 usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.

3 The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

4 The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.

The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.

5 And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, [even] the everlasting covenant.

And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.

Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left.

7 The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;

8 The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

9 They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink [it].

They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

10 All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.

11 There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;

12 And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, — a ruin.

13 All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,

For so will it be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-gleanings when the vintage is done.

14 these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together in the glory of the Lord: the water of the sea shall be troubled.

These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for the majesty of Jehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

15 Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.

Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.

16 O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, [and there is] hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.

From the end of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous! And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

17 Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.

Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, inhabitant of the land.

18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,

And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the sound of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are open, and the foundations of the earth shake.

19 the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is violently moved.

20 It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.

The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.

21 And God shall bring [his] hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.

And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.

And they shall be brought together, [as] an assemblage of prisoners for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

23 And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before [his] elders.

And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients in glory.