24:1 Behold, Yehovah is about to lay waste
the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it,
and scatter them that dwell therein.
24:2 And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and
the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as
the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.
24:3 The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be
utterly spoiled: for the mouth of Yehovah has spoken these things.
24:4 The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth
are mourning.
24:5 And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have
transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, [even] the everlasting
covenant.
24:6 Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants
thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and
few men shall be left.
24:7 The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall
sigh.
24:8 The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.
24:9 They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become
bitter to them that drink [it].
24:10 All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that
none shall enter.
24:11 There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land
has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.
24:12 And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to
ruin.
24:13 All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one
should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage
is done,
24:14 these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall
rejoice together in the glory of Yehovah: the water of the sea shall be
troubled.
24:15 Therefore shall the glory of Yehovah be in the isles of the sea; the
name of Yehovah shall be glorious.
24:16 O Lord Elohim of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard
wonderful things, [and there is] hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe
to the despisers, that despise the law.
24:17 Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he that flees from the fear shall
fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by
the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of
the earth shall be shaken,
24:19 the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be
completely perplexed.
24:20 It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth
shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon
it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.
24:21 And Elohim shall bring [his] hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the
kings of the earth.
24:22 And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they
shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be
visited.
24:23 And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for Yehovah shall
reign from out of Zion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before
[his] elders. |
24:1 Behold, Yehovah maketh the earth
empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth
abroad the inhabitants thereof.
24:2 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.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for Yehovah
hath spoken this word.
24:4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth
away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they
have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting
covenant.
24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell
therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and
few men left.
24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do
sigh.
24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth,
the joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to
them that drink it.
24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no
man may come in.
24:11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the
mirth of the land is gone.
24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with
destruction.
24:13 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.
24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the
Yehovah, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 Wherefore glorify ye Yehovah in the fires, even the name of Yehovah
Elohim of Israel in the isles of the sea.
24:16 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.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the
earth.
24:18 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.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
earth is moved exceedingly.
24:20 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.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yehovah shall punish the
host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the
earth.
24:22 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.
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when Yehovah
of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his
ancients gloriously. |