< 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, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
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
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
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 will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered.
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 withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
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 is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and 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 a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
7 to mourn new wine to weaken vine to sigh all glad heart
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
8 to cease rejoicing tambourine to cease roar jubilant to cease rejoicing lyre
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
9 in/on/with song not to drink wine to provoke strong drink to/for to drink him
They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
10 to break town formlessness to shut all house: home from to come (in): come
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
11 outcry upon [the] wine in/on/with outside to grow dark all joy to reveal: remove rejoicing [the] land: country/planet
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
12 to remain in/on/with city horror: destroyed and ruin to crush gate
The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
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
So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
14 they(masc.) to lift: loud voice their to sing in/on/with pride LORD to cry out from sea: west
They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.
15 upon so in/on/with flame to honor: honour LORD in/on/with coastland [the] sea name LORD God Israel
Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands 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 ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.
17 dread and pit and snare upon you to dwell [the] land: country/planet
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller 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
Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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 apart, the earth is split open, 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 staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to 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
In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
22 and to gather collecting prisoner upon pit and to shut upon locksmith and from abundance day to reckon: punish
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
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
The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.