Isaiah 24

Behold, ^athe Lord ^bcmaketh the earth empty, and ^cmaketh it waste,

And turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

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

As with the servant, so with his master;

As with the maid, so with her mistress;

^fAs with the buyer, so with the seller;

As with the lender, so with the borrower;

^gAs with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

^3hThe land shall be ^butterly emptied, and utterly spoiled:

ⁱFor the Lord hath spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourneth and fadeth away,

The world ^jlanguisheth and fadeth away,

The haughty people of the earth ^jdo languish.

⁵The ^kearth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;

Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance,

^lBroken the everlasting covenant.

⁶Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth,

And they that dwell therein ^mare desolate:

Therefore the inhabitants of the earth ⁿare burned,

And ^ofew men left.

^7pThe new wine mourneth, the vine ^jlanguisheth,

All the merryhearted do sigh.

^8qThe mirth of ^rtabrets ^sceaseth, ^tthe noise of them that rejoice endeth,

The joy of ^rthe harp ^sceaseth.

⁹They shall not drink wine with a song;

Strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

¹⁰The city of ^uconfusion is broken down:

Every house is shut up, ^vthat no man may come in.

¹¹There is ^wa crying ^xfor wine in the streets;

All joy is darkened,

The mirth of ^hthe land is gone.

¹²In the city is left desolation,

And the gate is smitten with destruction.

¹³When thus it shall be in the midst of ^hthe land among the people,

There shall be ^yas the shaking of an olive tree,

And ^zas the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

¹⁴They shall lift up their voice, ^athey shall sing,

For the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud ^bfrom the sea.

¹⁵Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the ^cfires,

Even ^dthe name of the Lord God of Israel in ^ethe isles of the sea.

¹⁶From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard ^eesongs, even ^fglory to the righteous.

But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!

^gThe treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;

Yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

^17hFear, and the pit, and the ⁱsnare,

Are upon thee, ^jO inhabitant of the earth.

^18hAnd it shall come to pass, that ^khe who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit;

And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare:

For ^lthe windows from on high are open,

And ^mthe foundations of the earth do shake.

¹⁹The earth ⁿis utterly broken down,

The earth ^ois clean dissolved,

The earth is moved exceedingly.

²⁰The earth shall ^preel to and fro like a drunkard,

And shall be removed like ^qa cottage;

And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it;

And it shall fall, and not rise again.

²¹And it shall come to pass ^rin that day,

That the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are ^son high,

And ^tthe kings of the earth upon the earth.

²²And they shall be gathered together, as ^uprisoners are gathered in the pit,

And shall be shut up in the ^uprison,

And ^vafter many days shall they be ^wvisited.

^23xThen ^ythe moon shall be confounded, and ^ythe sun ashamed,

When ^zthe Lord of hosts shall reign

In ^amount Zion, and in Jerusalem,

And before his ^bancients gloriously.

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