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Isaiah 24

24 Pay attention! Yahweh is about to destroy everything on the earth

and make it a wasteland.

He will ruin the surface of the land

and scatter the people who live on it.

2 He will treat everyone the same way:

ordinary people and priests,

male servants and their masters,

female servants and their mistresses,

buyers and sellers,

those who lend money and those who borrow it,

creditors and those who owe them debts.

3 Yahweh will completely empty the earth

and remove everything valuable on it.

This will surely happen because Yahweh has said that it will happen.

4 The plants on the earth will completely wither.

The plants that grow in the ground will not be able to produce any fruit.

The most important people on earth will become weak.

5 The people who live on the earth have made it

a place that Yahweh considers unclean.

That is because they have disobeyed his instructions,

disregarded his laws,

and broken the permanent agreement that he made with them.

6 Because of that, God has cursed the earth and is destroying it.

The people of the earth are suffering for what they have done wrong.

As a result, most of the people of the earth are dying.

Only a few people remain alive.

7 The grapevines are producing few grapes,

so there is little new wine.

The people who used to feel happy are now groaning.

8 People no longer play happy music on tambourines or harps.

They no longer celebrate loudly.

9 People no longer sing songs as they drink wine.

People no longer enjoy drinking beer.

10 There is so much damage in the city

that it is no longer a busy place.

People do not allow others to enter their homes.

11 People shout in the streets because they have no more wine.

People who used to be happy are not happy anymore.

Instead, they feel gloomy.

12 Enemies have battered down the gates of the city

and come in and destroyed its buildings.

13 This is what it will be like throughout the earth

and among its peoples:

it will be like when workers beat the last few olives off a tree,

or like the few grapes that remain after the grape harvest ends.

14 But those who survive will shout loudly and joyfully.

From the western coastlands, they will proclaim how majestic Yahweh is.

15 So people in eastern regions should also praise Yahweh.

Those who live in the coastlands by the sea

should celebrate the fame of Yahweh,

the God whom Israelites worship.

16 We know that people in faraway places are singing,

“Glorify Yahweh, who is righteous!”

However, I say, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away!

How terrible it is for me!”

Dishonest people continue to betray others.

They betray others repeatedly and very dishonestly.

17 You people who live on the earth,

you will experience great fear

and difficulties you cannot overcome,

as if they were deep pits or traps from which you could not escape.

18 If someone tries to flee from something that scares him,

it will be as if he falls into a deep pit.

If he overcomes one difficulty, as if he climbed out of that pit,

he will have another difficulty, as if a trap catches him.

God will cause torrential rainstorms

and great earthquakes.

19 God will shatter the earth completely.

He will split it open

and make it shake violently.

20 The earth will move back and forth the way a drunk person staggers.

It will sway as a hut does in a windstorm.

The sins of the people who live on the earth

are like a weight that is too heavy for it to carry.

It will be as if the earth collapses under that weight

and is not able to get up again.

21 At that time, Yahweh will punish the powerful beings in the heavens above

and the kings on the earth below.

22 Yahweh will gather them all together and put them in a dungeon like prisoners.

He will lock them up in that prison,

and after a long time, he will punish them.

23 Then the moon and the sun will not seem so bright

because Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, will reign

on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,

and the elders of his people will see how glorious he is.