Isaiah 24
1 Watch out! The Lord is going to destroy the earth, to make it totally devastated. He's going to rip up the surface of the earth and scatter its inhabitants.
Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram, et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem eius, et disperget habitatores eius.
2 It will happen the same for everybody—whether people or priests, servants or their masters, maids or their mistresses, buyers or sellers, lenders or borrowers, creditors or debtors.
Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos: et sicut servus, sic dominus eius: sicut ancilla, sic domina eius: sicut emens, sic ille qui vendit: sicut fœnerator, sic is qui mutuum accipit: sicut qui repetit, sic qui debet.
3 The earth will be completely laid waste and looted. This is what the Lord has said.
Dissipatione dissipabitur terra, et direptione prædabitur. Dominus enim locutus est verbum hoc.
4 The earth dries up and withers away; the world shrivels up and withers away, the high and mighty people shrivel up along with the earth.
Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est: defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terræ.
5 The earth is polluted by its people; they have flouted God's laws, violated his regulations, and broken the eternal agreement with him.
Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis: quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt ius, dissipaverunt fœdus sempiternum.
6 That is why a curse is destroying the earth. The people suffer because of their guilt. The inhabitants of the earth are burned up and only a few survive.
Propter hoc maledictio vorabit terram, et peccabunt habitatores eius: ideoque insanient cultores eius, et relinquentur homines pauci.
7 The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.
Luxit vindemia, infirmata est vitis, ingemuerunt omnes qui lætabantur corde.
8 The happy sound of tambourines is over; the noise of the party-goers has stopped; the delightful harp music has finished,
Cessavit gaudium tympanorum, quievit sonitus lætantium, conticuit dulcedo citharæ.
9 People don't sing any more as they drink wine, and the beer tastes bitter.
Cum cantico non bibent vinum: amara erit potio bibentibus illam.
10 The chaotic city is falling apart; every house is barred shut to keep others out.
Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus nullo introeunte.
11 Crowds on the street are shouting, demanding to have wine. Joy turns into darkness. There's no happiness left on earth.
Clamor erit super vino in plateis: deserta est omnia lætitia: translatum est gaudium terræ.
12 The city is in a horrible state of ruin; its gates have been broken down.
Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas.
13 This is the way it's going to be all throughout the earth among the nations—only a few olives are left after the tree is shaken, only a few grapes are left to be gleaned after the harvest.
Quia hæc erunt in medio terræ, in medio populorum: quomodo si paucæ olivæ, quæ remanserunt, excutiantur ex olea: et racemi, cum fuerit finita vindemia.
14 These survivors shout aloud and sing for joy. From the west they praise the Lord's majesty.
Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt: cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.
15 From the east they glorify the Lord; from the sea shores they praise the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
Propter hoc in doctrinis glorificate Dominum: in insulis maris nomen Domini Dei Israel.
16 We hear songs coming from the ends of the earth, singing, “Glory to the God who does right.” But I'm miserable, miserable. Pity me! Deceitful people go on betraying, again and again.
A finibus terræ laudes audivimus, gloriam iusti. Et dixi: Secretum meum mihi, secretum meum mihi, væ mihi: prævaricantes prævaricati sunt, et prævaricatione transgressorum prævaricati sunt.
17 Terrors and pit-traps and snares are waiting for you, people of the earth.
Formido, et fovea, et laqueus super te, qui habitator es terræ.
18 Those who run away in terror will fall into a pit-trap, and those who escape from the pit-trap will be caught in a snare. Heaven's windows are opened; earth's foundations shake.
Et erit: Qui fugerit a voce formidinis, cadet in foveam: et qui se explicaverit de fovea, tenebitur laqueo: quia cataractæ de excelsis apertæ sunt, et concutientur fundamenta terræ.
19 The earth is completely broken up; the earth is ripped apart, the earth is violently shaken.
Confractione confringetur terra, contritione conteretur terra, commotione commovebitur terra,
20 The earth staggers to and fro like a drunk, and sways this way and that like a shelter. The guilt of its rebelliousness weighs heavily on it, and it collapses—it won't rise again.
agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius, et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis: et gravabit eam iniquitas sua, et corruet, et non adiiciet ut resurgat.
21 At that time the Lord will punish all the high heavenly beings and the kings of the earth.
Et erit: In die illa visitabit Dominus super militiam cæli in excelso: et super reges terræ, qui sunt super terram.
22 They will be brought together, prisoners in a pit. They will be imprisoned, and eventually they will be punished.
Et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere: et post multos dies visitabuntur.
23 The moon will be embarrassed and the sun will be ashamed, for the Lord Almighty will reign in glory on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem in the presence of its leaders.
Et erubescet luna, et confundetur sol, cum regnaverit Dominus exercituum in monte Sion, et in Ierusalem, et in conspectu senum suorum fuerit glorificatus.
