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¹ Look, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.² And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.³ The earth shall be completely emptied, and completely laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.⁴ The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth languish.⁵ The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.⁶ Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few of common man are left.⁷ The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.⁸ The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of those that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those that drink it.¹⁰ The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.¹¹ There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; 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 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.¹⁴ These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea.¹⁵ Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.

¹⁶ From the uttermost part of the earth we have heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.¹⁷ Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth.¹⁸ 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 snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.¹⁹ The earth is completely broken, the earth is rent apart, the earth is shaken violently.²⁰ The earth shall stagger like a drunk man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on 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 they shall be visited.²³ Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.