Isaiæ 24
1 Ecce Dominus dissipabit terram, et nudabit eam, et affliget faciem eius, et disperget habitatores eius.
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.
2 Et erit sicut populus, sic sacerdos: et sicut servus, sic dominus eius: sicut ancilla, sic domina eius: sicut emens, sic ille qui vendit: sicut foenerator, sic is qui mutuum accipit: sicut qui repetit, sic qui debet.
And there shalbe like people, like Priest, and like seruaunt, like master, like maide, like mistresse, like bier, like seller, like lender, like borower, like giuer, like taker to vsurie.
3 Dissipatione dissipabitur terra, et direptione praedabitur. Dominus enim locutus est verbum hoc.
The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.
4 Luxit, et defluxit terra, et infirmata est: defluxit orbis, infirmata est altitudo populi terrae.
The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened.
5 Et terra infecta est ab habitatoribus suis: quia transgressi sunt leges, mutaverunt ius, dissipaverunt foedus sempiternum.
The earth also deceiueth, because of the inhabitantes thereof: for they transgressed the lawes: they changed the ordinances, and brake the euerlasting couenant.
6 Propter hoc maledictio vorabit terram, et peccabunt habitatores eius: ideoque insanient cultores eius, et relinquentur homines pauci.
Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe men are left.
7 Luxit vindemia, infirmata est vitis, ingemuerunt omnes qui laetabantur corde.
The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.
8 Cessavit gaudium tympanorum, quievit sonitus laetantium, conticuit dulcedo citharae.
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.
9 Cum cantico non bibent vinum: amara erit potio bibentibus illam.
They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it.
10 Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus nullo introeunte.
The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
11 Clamor erit super vino in plateis: deserta est omnia laetitia: translatum est gaudium terrae.
There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away.
12 Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas.
In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 Quia haec erunt in medio terrae, in medio populorum: quomodo si paucae olivae, quae remanserunt, excutiantur ex olea: et racemi, cum fuerit finita vindemia.
Surely thus shall it bee in the middes of the earth, among the people, as the shaking of an oliue tree, and as the grapes when the vintage is ended.
14 Hi levabunt vocem suam, atque laudabunt: cum glorificatus fuerit Dominus, hinnient de mari.
They shall lift vp their voyce: they shall shout for the magnificence of the Lord: they shall reioyce from the sea.
15 Propter hoc in doctrinis glorificate Dominum: in insulis maris nomen Domini Dei Israel.
Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lord God of Israel, in the yles of the sea.
16 A finibus terrae laudes audivimus, gloriam iusti. Et dixi: Secretum meum mihi, secretum meum mihi, vae mihi: praevaricantes praevaricati sunt, et praevaricatione transgressorum praevaricati sunt.
From the vttermost part of the earth wee haue heard praises, euen glory to the iust, and I sayd, My leanesse, my leanesse, woe is mee: the transgressours haue offended: yea, the transgressours haue grieuously offended.
17 Formido, et fovea, et laqueus super te, qui habitator es terrae.
Feare, and the pitte, and the snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 Et erit: Qui fugerit a voce formidinis, cadet in foveam: et qui se explicaverit de fovea, tenebitur laqueo: quia cataractae de excelsis apertae sunt, et concutientur fundamenta terrae.
And hee that fleeth from the noyse of the feare, shall fall into the pit: and he that commeth vp out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the windowes from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth doe shake.
19 Confractione confringetur terra, contritione conteretur terra, commotione commovebitur terra,
The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth is mooued exceedingly.
20 agitatione agitabitur terra sicut ebrius, et auferetur quasi tabernaculum unius noctis: et gravabit eam iniquitas sua, et corruet, et non adiiciet ut resurgat.
The earth shall reele to and from like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more.
21 Et erit: In die illa visitabit Dominus super militiam caeli in excelso: et super reges terrae, qui sunt super terram.
And in that day shall the Lord visite the hoste aboue that is on hie, euen the Kinges of the world that are vpon the earth.
22 Et congregabuntur in congregatione unius fascis in lacum, et claudentur ibi in carcere: et post multos dies visitabuntur.
And they shall be gathered together, as the prisoners in the pit: and they shall be shut vp in the prison, and after many daies shall they be visited.
23 Et erubescet luna, et confundetur sol, cum regnaverit Dominus exercituum in monte Sion, et in Ierusalem, et in conspectu senum suorum fuerit glorificatus.
Then the moone shall be abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in mount Zion and in Ierusalem: and glory shalbe before his ancient men.
