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CHAPTER 24
Behold, the L
ORD
maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and
scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2
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 the
giver of usury to him.
3
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the L
ORD
hath
spoken this word.
4
The earth mourneth
and
fadeth away, the world languisheth
and
fadeth away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the
inhabitants of the earth are burned, and fewmen left.
7
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth,
all the merryhearted do sigh.
8
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth,
the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to
them that drink it.
10
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man
may come in.
11
There is
a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land
is gone.
12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13
When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,
there shall be
as the shaking
of an olive tree,
and
as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14
They shall lift up their
voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the L
ORD
, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15
Wherefore
glorify ye the L
ORD
in the fires,
even
the name of the L
ORD
God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs,
even
glory to the righteous. But I
said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously;
yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare,
are
upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18
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 from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19
The
earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20
The
earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression
thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21
And it shall come to pass in
that day,
that
the L
ORD
shall punish the host of the high ones
that are
on high, and the kings of the
earth upon the earth.
22
And they shall be gathered together,
as
prisoners are gathered in the pit,
and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23
Then the moon shall
be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the L
ORD
of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
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