Isaiah:24

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* Lo , Jehovah empties the land and makes it bare , and distorts its face , and scatters its inhabitants . * And as it is with the people , so with the priest ; as with the servant , so with the master ; as with the maid , so with her mistress ; as with the buyer , so with the seller ; as with the lender , so with the borrower ; as with the creditor , so with the debtor . * The land shall completely be emptied and utterly stripped , for Jehovah has spoken this word . * The land mourns and languishes ; the world droops and languishes ; the proud people of the earth droop . * And the earth is profaned under its inhabitants , because they transgress laws and violate a statute , and break the everlasting covenant . * On account of this a curse has devoured the land ; and they who live in it are held guilty . For this the dwellers of the land are consumed , and few men are left . * The new wine has failed ; the vine droops ; all the merry-hearted sigh . * The joy of timbrels ceases ; the noise of those who revel ends ; the joy of the harp ceases . * They shall not drink wine with a song ; fermented drink shall be bitter to those who drink it . * The city of shame is broken down ; every house is shut , that no one may enter . * A crying over the wine is in the streets ; all joy is darkened ; the gladness in the land is carried away . * Desolation is remaining in the city , and a ruin ; the gate is battered . * For it is thus in the midst of the land , among the peoples , it shall be as the shaking of an olive tree , and as gleanings when the grape harvest is completed . * They lift up their voice ; they sing for the majesty of Jehovah ; they cry aloud from the sea . * On account of this , glorify Jehovah in the flames , the name of Jehovah God of Israel , in the coasts of the sea . * We have heard songs from the end of the earth , Honor to the Righteous . But I said , Leanness to me ! Leanness to me ! Woe to me ! Traitors betray , even perfidy ; traitors betray ! * Dread , and the pit , and a snare are upon you , dweller of the earth . * And it shall be , he who flees from the sound of dread shall fall into the pit . And he who comes up out of the middle of the pit shall be taken in the snare . For the windows from on high are opened , and the earth 's foundations quake . * The earth is breaking , breaking ! The earth is crashing , crashing ! The earth is tottering , tottering . * Like a drunkard , the earth is staggering , staggering ! And it rocks to and fro like a hut . And its trespass is heavy on it ; and it shall fall , and not rise again . * And it shall be in that day , Jehovah shall punish the army of the high place on high , and on the kings of the land on the land . * And they will be gathered , a gathering of prisoners in a dungeon . And they shall be shut up in a prison ; and after many days they will be visited . * Then the moon shall blush , and the sun shall be ashamed , when Jehovah of Hosts shall reign in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem ; and before His elders is His glory .

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