Yeshayahu 24 ישעיהו כ״ד

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters 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 creditor, so with the debtor.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord has spoken this word.

The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth languish.

The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the Torot, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Therefore has a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are parched, and few men left.

The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merryhearted do sigh.

The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the lyre is stilled.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

For thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, even as the beating of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing; for the majesty of the Lord shall they shout more than at the sea.

Wherefore glorify the Lord in the regions of light, even the name of the Lord God of Yisra᾽el in the isles of the sea.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! traitors have dealt treacherously; traitors have dealt very treacherously.

Fear, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the land.

And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the trap: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth crumbles away, the earth is violently shaken.

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a frail hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

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 punished.

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Żiyyon, and in Yerushalayim, and before his elders will be his glory.