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‏ Isaiah 24

The Earth Judged

1 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
2 people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message. ^a

4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
5 The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, ^b
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant. ^c
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, ^d
and its inhabitants have become ^{▼▼guilt/guilty: The liability to be punished for a fault, a sin, an act, or an omission unless there is forgiveness or atonement; the term normally concerns an objective fact, not a subjective feeling.}guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.
7 The new wine mourns; ^f
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.
8 The joyful tambourines ^g have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.
9 They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of chaos is shattered; ^h
every house is closed to entry. ⁱ
11 In the streets they cry ^{▼▼Lit streets she cries} for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
12 Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
13 For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest. ^k

14 They raise their voices, they sing out;
they proclaim in the west
the majesty of the Lord.
15 Therefore, in the east honor the Lord!
In the islands of the west
honor the name of ^{▼▼Yahweh/Yah: Or The Lord; the personal name of God in Hebrew; "Yah" is the shortened form of the name.}Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One. ^m

But I said, “I waste away! I waste away! ^{▼▼Hb obscure}
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously. ^o

17 Panic, pit, and trap await you ^p
who dwell on the earth. ^q
18 Whoever flees at the sound of panic
will fall into a pit,
and whoever escapes from the pit
will be caught in a trap.
For the windows are opened from heaven, ^r
and the foundations of the earth are shaken. ^s
19 The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth staggers like a drunkard ^t
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.

21 On that day ^u the Lord will punish
the host of heaven above
and kings of the earth below.
22 They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit. ^v
They will be confined to a dungeon; ^w
after many days they will be punished.
23 The moon will be put to shame
and the sun disgraced,
because the Lord of ^{▼▼Hosts/hosts: Military forces consisting of God's angels, sometimes including the sun, moon, and stars, and occasionally, Israel}Hosts will reign as king
on Mount ^{▼▼Zion: Originally a term for the fortified section of Jerusalem and then, by extension, used for the temple and the city of Jerusalem both in the present time and in the future}Zion in Jerusalem,
and He will display His glory
in the presence of His elders. ^z