Isaiah 24 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^24:1 Look, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
^24:2 And it will be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, 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 to him.
^24:3 The earth will be completely emptied, and completely laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
^24:4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth languish.
^24:5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
^24:6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few of common man are left.
^24:7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.
^24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
^24:9 They will not drink wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
^24:10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
^24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
^24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
^24:13 For thus it will be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
^24:14 These will lift up their voice, they will shout; for the splendor of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea.
^24:15 Therefore glorify⁺ Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.
^24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! The betrayers have betrayed; yes, the betrayers have totally betrayed.
^24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth.
^24:18 And it will come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
^24:19 The earth is completely broken, the earth is rent apart, the earth is shaken violently.
^24:20 The earth will stagger like a drunk man, and will sway to and fro like a hammock; and its transgression will be heavy on it, and it will fall, and not rise again.
^24:21 And it will come to pass in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
^24:22 And 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.
^24:23 Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.

Isaiah, Chapter 24