Isaiah 24

The Judgment on the Earth

¹Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste

and he will twist her surface,

²And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest;

as with the female slave, so with her mistress;

as with the lender, so with the borrower;

³The earth shall be utterly laid waste,

for Yahweh has spoken this word.

⁴The earth dries up, it withers;

The elevated of the people of the earth languish,

For they have transgressed laws;

⁶Therefore a curse devours the earth,

Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn,

⁷The new wine dries up;

All the merry of heart sigh;

The noise of the jubilant has ceased;

⁹They do not drink wine with song;

¹⁰The city of emptiness is broken;

All joy turns into darkness;

¹²Desolation is left in the city;

¹³For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth,

like the beating of an olive tree,

¹⁴They lift up their voices; they sing for joy;[#Hebrew “voice”]

¹⁵Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east,

¹⁶We hear songs from the edge of the earth:[#Literally “wing”]

But I say, “Ruin to me!

The treacherous ones deal treacherously,

¹⁷Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, inhabitants of the earth![#Hebrew “inhabitant”]

¹⁸And this shall happen:

The one who flees from the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit,

for the windows from heaven are opened,

¹⁹The earth is utterly broken;

²⁰The earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard,

and its transgression is heavy upon it,

²¹And this shall happen on that day:

Yahweh will punish the host of heaven in heaven,

²²And they will be gathered in a gathering, like a prisoner in a pit.[#Literally “on”]

²³And the full moon will be ashamed

for Yahweh of hosts will rule on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,