< Isaiah 24 >
1 behold LORD to empty [the] land: country/planet and to waste her and to twist face: surface her and to scatter to dwell her
Behold, Jehovah makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
2 and to be like/as people like/as priest like/as servant/slave like/as lord his like/as maidservant like/as lady her like/as to buy like/as to sell like/as to borrow like/as to borrow like/as to lend like/as as which to exact in/on/with him
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 creditor, so with the debtor, as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
3 to empty to empty [the] land: country/planet and to plunder to plunder for LORD to speak: speak [obj] [the] word [the] this
The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste, for Jehovah has spoken this word.
4 to mourn to wither [the] land: country/planet to weaken to wither world to weaken height people [the] land: country/planet
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
5 and [the] land: country/planet to pollute underneath: under to dwell her for to pass: trespass instruction to pass statute: decree to break covenant forever: enduring
The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 upon so oath to eat land: country/planet and be guilty to dwell in/on/with her upon so to scorch to dwell land: country/planet and to remain human little
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 to mourn new wine to weaken vine to sigh all glad heart
The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh.
8 to cease rejoicing tambourine to cease roar jubilant to cease rejoicing lyre
The mirth of tambourine ceases. The noise of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
9 in/on/with song not to drink wine to provoke strong drink to/for to drink him
They shall not drink wine with a song. Strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.
10 to break town formlessness to shut all house: home from to come (in): come
The waste city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 outcry upon [the] wine in/on/with outside to grow dark all joy to reveal: remove rejoicing [the] land: country/planet
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
12 to remain in/on/with city horror: destroyed and ruin to crush gate
Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 for thus to be in/on/with entrails: among [the] land: country/planet in/on/with midst [the] people like/as shaking olive like/as gleaning if: until to end: finish vintage
For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
14 they(masc.) to lift: loud voice their to sing in/on/with pride LORD to cry out from sea: west
These shall lift up their voice. They shall shout. For the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea.
15 upon so in/on/with flame to honor: honour LORD in/on/with coastland [the] sea name LORD God Israel
Therefore glorify ye Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.
16 from wing [the] land: country/planet song to hear: hear beauty to/for righteous and to say wasting to/for me wasting to/for me woe! to/for me to act treacherously to act treacherously and treachery to act treacherously to act treacherously
From the outermost part of the earth we have heard songs. Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away. Woe is me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously, yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
17 dread and pit and snare upon you to dwell [the] land: country/planet
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 and to be [the] to flee from voice: sound [the] dread to fall: fall to(wards) [the] pit and [the] to ascend: rise from midst [the] pit to capture in/on/with snare for window from height to open and to shake foundation land: country/planet
And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
19 to shatter to shatter [the] land: country/planet to split to split land: country/planet to shake to shake land: country/planet
The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
20 to shake to shake land: country/planet like/as drunken and to wander like/as lodge and to honor: heavy upon her transgression her and to fall: fall and not to add: again to arise: rise
The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock. And the transgression of it shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to reckon: punish LORD upon army [the] height in/on/with height and upon king [the] land: planet upon [the] land: planet
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 to gather collecting prisoner upon pit and to shut upon locksmith and from abundance day to reckon: punish
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 they shall be visited.
23 and be ashamed [the] moon and be ashamed [the] heat for to reign LORD Hosts in/on/with mountain: mount Zion and in/on/with Jerusalem and before old: elder his glory
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem. And glory shall be before his elders.