Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his 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 taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
The earth mourneth, it fadeth away: the world languisheth, it fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish,
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do sigh.
The mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man entereth in.
[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
In the city remaineth desolation, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin.
For thus it will be in the midst of the land among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the grape-gleanings when the vintage is done.
These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout for the majesty of Jehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
Wherefore glorify ye Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah the God of Israel in the isles of the west.
From the end [wing] of the earth have we heard songs, Glory to the righteous!
Fear, and the pit, and the snare [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth .
And it shall come to pass [that] he 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 the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is quite dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night-hut; and the transgression thereof is heavy upon it; and it falleth, and riseth not again.
And it shall come to pass in that day [that] Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
And they shall be gathered together [as] prisoners gathered for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
And the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when Jehovah of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory.