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 makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters 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
It will 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.
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 emptied and utterly laid waste; for the LORD 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 its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, 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 the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burnt, and few men are 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 sigh.
8 to cease rejoicing tambourine to cease roar jubilant to cease rejoicing lyre
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound 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 will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
10 to break town formlessness to shut all house: home from to come (in): come
The confused 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
The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck 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 it will be so within the earth amongst 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 will shout for the majesty of the LORD. 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 the LORD in the east, even 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 uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
17 dread and pit and snare upon you to dwell [the] land: country/planet
Fear, the pit, and the snare are on you who inhabit 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
It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the middle of the pit will 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 will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will 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
It will happen in that day that the LORD will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth 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 be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will 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 will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of Armies will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.
