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
Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth. He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert and scatter its people.
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
He will scatter everyone— priests and common people, servants and their masters, maids and their mistresses, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, people who owe money and people who are owed money.
3 to empty to empty [the] land: country/planet and to plunder to plunder for LORD to speak: speak [obj] [the] word [the] this
Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth; everything valuable will be destroyed. [That will surely happen because] Yahweh has said it.
4 to mourn to wither [the] land: country/planet to weaken to wither world to weaken height people [the] land: country/planet
[Everything on] the earth will dry up and die [DOU]; its important people will become weak and unimportant.
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 has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws; they have rejected the agreement that he intended to last forever.
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, [Yahweh] will curse the earth; the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed. They will be destroyed by fire, and [only a] few people will remain [alive].
7 to mourn new wine to weaken vine to sigh all glad heart
The grapevines will wither, and there will be no [grapes to make] wine. All [the people] who were previously happy will then groan and mourn.
8 to cease rejoicing tambourine to cease roar jubilant to cease rejoicing lyre
People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines, people will no longer play joyfully on their harps, and people will no longer shout noisily [during their celebrations].
9 in/on/with song not to drink wine to provoke strong drink to/for to drink him
People will no longer sing while they drink wine, and [all] their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.
10 to break town formlessness to shut all house: home from to come (in): come
[Towns and] cities will be desolate; every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.
11 outcry upon [the] wine in/on/with outside to grow dark all joy to reveal: remove rejoicing [the] land: country/planet
[Mobs] will gather in the streets, wanting wine; no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.
12 to remain in/on/with city horror: destroyed and ruin to crush gate
Cities will be ruined and [all] their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.
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
It will be like that all over the earth: [there will only be a few people still alive], like what happens when [workers] beat all the olives off a tree [and there are only a few left], [or] when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left [on the vines].
14 they(masc.) to lift: loud voice their to sing in/on/with pride LORD to cry out from sea: west
But [those who are left alive] will sing joyfully; people [in nations] to the west [of Israel] will declare that Yahweh is very great;
15 upon so in/on/with flame to honor: honour LORD in/on/with coastland [the] sea name LORD God Israel
people in nations to the east [of Israel will also] praise Yahweh [MTY]; in countries across the sea, people will praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
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
We will hear [people] in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to [Yahweh], the [truly] righteous one. But [now], I am [SYN] very sad. Weep for me, [because] I have become thin and weak. Terrible things are happening! Treacherous [people still] betray/deceive others everywhere [DOU].
17 dread and pit and snare upon you to dwell [the] land: country/planet
You people all over the earth, you will be terrified, and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.
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
Those who [try to] flee because they are terrified will fall into [deep] pits, and those who climb out of the pits will be caught by traps/snares. The sky will split open and torrents [SIM] [of rain will fall]; the foundations of the earth will shake.
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 will split apart and be shattered; it will shake 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
[It will be as though] the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk; it will shake like [SIM] a hut [shakes in a windstorm]. It will collapse and not [be able to] rise again, [because] the guilt of the people who rebel [against Yahweh] is very great.
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
At that time, Yahweh will punish the [wicked] powerful beings in the skies and the wicked kings on the earth.
22 and to gather collecting prisoner upon pit and to shut upon locksmith and from abundance day to reckon: punish
They will [all] be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon/pit. They will be shut/locked in that dungeon/pit, and later they will be punished.
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
At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened; [it will be as though] they are ashamed [in the presence of] Yahweh, because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously (on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem), in the presence of the leaders [of his people].
