Isaiah 24 : 1 (HCSB)
Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
Isaiah 24 : 2 (HCSB)
people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
Isaiah 24 : 3 (HCSB)
The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the LORD has spoken this message.
Isaiah 24 : 4 (HCSB)
The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away.
Isaiah 24 : 5 (HCSB)
The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24 : 6 (HCSB)
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth's inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.
Isaiah 24 : 7 (HCSB)
The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.
Isaiah 24 : 8 (HCSB)
The joyful tambourines have ceased. The noise of the jubilant has stopped. The joyful lyre has ceased.
Isaiah 24 : 9 (HCSB)
They no longer sing and drink wine; beer is bitter to those who drink it.
Isaiah 24 : 10 (HCSB)
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
Isaiah 24 : 11 (HCSB)
In the streets they cry for wine. All joy grows dark; earth's rejoicing goes into exile.
Isaiah 24 : 12 (HCSB)
Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins.
Isaiah 24 : 13 (HCSB)
For this is how it will be on earth among the nations: like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
Isaiah 24 : 14 (HCSB)
They raise their voices, they sing out; they proclaim in the west the majesty of the LORD.
Isaiah 24 : 15 (HCSB)
Therefore in the east honor the LORD! In the islands of the west *honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 24 : 16 (HCSB)
From the ends of the earth we hear songs: The Splendor of the Righteous One. But I said, "I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me." The treacherous act treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.
Isaiah 24 : 17 (HCSB)
Terror, pit, and snare *await you who dwell on the earth.
Isaiah 24 : 18 (HCSB)
Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit, and whoever escapes from the pit will be caught in a snare. For the windows are opened from above, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Isaiah 24 : 19 (HCSB)
The earth is completely devastated; the earth is split open; the earth is violently shaken.
Isaiah 24 : 20 (HCSB)
The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a hut. Earth's rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
Isaiah 24 : 21 (HCSB)
On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and kings of the earth below.
Isaiah 24 : 22 (HCSB)
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon; after many days they will be punished.
Isaiah 24 : 23 (HCSB)
The moon will be put to shame and the sun disgraced, because the LORD of Hosts will reign as king on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and He will *display His glory in the presence of His elders.
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