Isaiah 24

¹Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emptie, and hee maketh it waste: hee turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitants thereof.

²And there shalbe like people, like Priest, and like seruaunt, like master, like maide, like mistresse, like bier, like seller, like lender, like borower, like giuer, like taker to vsurie.

³The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.

⁴The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened.

⁵The earth also deceiueth, because of the inhabitantes thereof: for they transgressed the lawes: they changed the ordinances, and brake the euerlasting couenant.

⁶Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe men are left.

⁷The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.

⁸The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.

⁹They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it.

¹⁰The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.

¹¹There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away.

¹²In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.