Isaiah 24
24
The Earth Will Be Punished
1The Lord is going to twist the earth out of shape and turn it into a desert. Everyone will be scattered, 2including ordinary people and priests, slaves and slave owners, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, the rich and the poor. 3The earth will be stripped bare and left that way. This is what the Lord has promised.
4The earth wilts away;
its mighty leaders melt
to nothing.#24.4 its … to nothing: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
5The earth is polluted
because its people
disobeyed the laws of God,
breaking their agreement
that was to last forever.
6The earth is under a curse;
its people are dying out
because of their sins.
7Grapevines have dried up:
wine is almost gone—
mournful sounds are heard
instead of joyful shouts.
8No one plays tambourines
or stringed instruments;
all noisy celebrating
has come to an end.
9They no longer sing
as they drink their wine,
and it tastes sour.
10Towns are crushed and in chaos;
houses are locked tight.
11Happy times have disappeared
from the earth,
and people shout in the streets,
“We're out of wine!”
12Cities are destroyed;
their gates are torn down.
13Nations will be stripped bare,
like olive trees or vineyards
after the harvest season.
Praise the God of Justice
14People in the west shout;
they joyfully praise
the majesty of the Lord.
15And so, everyone in the east
and those on the islands
should praise the Lord,
the God of Israel.
16From all over the world
songs of praise are heard
for the God of justice.#24.16 God of justice: Or “people who do right.”
But I feel awful,
terribly miserable.
Can anyone be trusted?
So many are treacherous!
There's No Escape
17Terror, traps, and pits
are waiting for everyone.
18If you are terrified and run,
you will fall into a pit;
if you crawl out of the pit,
you will get caught in a trap.
The sky has split apart
like a window thrown open.
The foundations of the earth
have been shaken;
19the earth is shattered,
ripped to pieces.
20It staggers and shakes
like a drunkard
or a hut in a windstorm.
It is burdened down with sin;
the earth will fall,
never again to get up.
21On that day the Lord
will punish the powers
in the heavens#24.21 the powers in the heavens: In ancient times the stars were thought of as powerful spiritual beings, and sometimes they stood for pagan gods.
and the kings of the earth.
22He will put them in a pit
and keep them prisoner.
Then later on,
he will punish them.
23Both the moon and sun will
be embarrassed and ashamed.
The Lord All-Powerful will rule
on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
where he will show its rulers
his wonderful glory.
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 24
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1See, יהוה is making the earth empty and making it waste, and shall overturn its surface, and shall scatter abroad its inhabitants.
2And it shall be – as with the people so with the priest, as with the servant so with his master, as with the female servant so with her mistress, as with the buyer so with the seller, as with the lender so with the borrower, as with the creditor so with the debtor;
3the earth is completely emptied and utterly plundered, for יהוה has spoken this word.
4The earth shall mourn and wither, the world shall languish and wither, the haughty people of the earth shall languish.
5For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot,#Torot - plural of Torah - teaching. changed#See Jer. 23:36 the law, broken the everlasting covenant.#See Isa. 13:9; Isa. 13:11; Isa. 26:21; Isa. 66:24; Mic. 5:15; Zeph. 1:2-18
6Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, and those who dwell in it be punished. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth shall be burned, and few men shall be left.
7The new wine shall fail, the vine shall languish, all those glad at heart shall sigh.
8The joy of the tambourine shall cease, the noise of those who rejoice shall end, the joy of the lyre shall cease.
9No more do they drink wine with a song, strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10The deserted city shall be broken down, every house shall be shut, no one enters.
11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy shall be darkened, the gladness of the earth shall be gone.
12The city is left in ruins, and the gate is stricken with destruction.
13For thus it is to be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive tree, like the gleaning of grapes when the grape harvest is done.
14They lift up their voice, they sing of the excellency of יהוה, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15Therefore praise יהוה in the east, the Name of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl in the coastlands of the sea.
16From the ends of the earth we shall hear songs, “Splendour to the Righteous One!” But I say, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray, with treachery the treacherous betray.”
17Fear and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18And it shall be that he who flees from the noise of the fear falls into the pit, and he who comes up from the midst of the pit is caught in the snare. For the windows from on high shall be opened, and the foundations of the earth be shaken.
19The earth shall be utterly broken, the earth shall be completely shattered, the earth shall be fiercely shaken.
20The earth shall stagger like a drunkard. And it shall totter like a hut, and its transgression shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21And in that day it shall be that יהוה punishes on high the host of exalted ones, and on the earth the sovereigns of the earth.
22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and be punished after many days.
23And the moon shall blush, and the sun shall be ashamed, for יהוה of hosts shall reign on Mount Tsiyon, and in Yerushalayim,#See Isa. 12:6; Isa. 16:5; Isa. 46:13; Isa. 52:8; Isa. 59:20; Psa. 102:16; Eze. 43:7-9; Joel 3:17; Joel 3:21; Mic. 4:7-9; Zep. 3:14, 15, 16, 17; Zech. 1:16, 17; Zech. 2:10; Zech. 8:3-8; Zech. 14:1- 11; Acts 1:6, 7; Rev. 21 and before His elders, in esteem!
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