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108 lines
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# Isaiah 24 (New King James Version)
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Impending Judgment on the Earth
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##### Chapter 24
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###### 1 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
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Distorts its surface
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And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
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###### 2 And it shall be:
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As with the people, so with the priest;
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As with the servant, so with his master;
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As with the maid, so with her mistress;
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As with the buyer, so with the seller;
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As with the lender, so with the borrower;
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As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
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###### 3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
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For the Lord has spoken this word.
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###### 4 The earth mourns _and_ fades away,
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The world languishes _and_ fades away;
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The haughty people of the earth languish.
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###### 5 The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
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Because they have transgressed the laws,
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Changed the ordinance,
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Broken the everlasting covenant.
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###### 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth,
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And those who dwell in it are desolate.
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Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
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And few men _are_ left.
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###### 7 The new wine fails, the vine languishes,
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All the merry-hearted sigh.
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###### 8 The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
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The noise of the jubilant ends,
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The joy of the harp ceases.
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###### 9 They shall not drink wine with a song;
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Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
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###### 10 The city of confusion is broken down;
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Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.
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###### 11 _There is_ a cry for wine in the streets,
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All joy is darkened,
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The mirth of the land is gone.
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###### 12 In the city desolation is left,
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And the gate is stricken with destruction.
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###### 13 When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people,
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_It shall be_ like the shaking of an olive tree,
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Like the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done.
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###### 14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing;
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For the majesty of the Lord
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They shall cry aloud from the sea.
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###### 15 Therefore glorify the Lord in the dawning light,
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The name of the Lord God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
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###### 16 From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
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"Glory to the righteous!"
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But I said, "I am ruined, ruined!
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Woe to me!
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The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,
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Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously."
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###### 17 Fear and the pit and the snare
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_Are_ upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
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###### 18 And it shall be
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_That_ he who flees from the noise of the fear
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Shall fall into the pit,
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And he who comes up from the midst of the pit
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Shall be caught in the snare;
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For the windows from on high are open,
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And the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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###### 19 The earth is violently broken,
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The earth is split open,
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The earth is shaken exceedingly.
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###### 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
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And shall totter like a hut;
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Its transgression shall be heavy upon it,
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And it will fall, and not rise again.
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###### 21 It shall come to pass in that day
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_That_ the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
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And on the earth the kings of the earth.
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###### 22 They will be gathered together,
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_As_ prisoners are gathered in the pit,
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And will be shut up in the prison;
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After many days they will be punished.
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###### 23 Then the moon will be disgraced
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And the sun ashamed;
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For the Lord of hosts will reign
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On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
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And before His elders, gloriously.
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