Against all the peoples of the earth
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📚✭See, the LORD makes the earth empty,
and lays it waste,
and turns it upside down,
and scatters its inhabitants
around.
2 📚✭And it will be like this:
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.
3 📚The land will be completely
emptied,
and utterly plundered;
for the LORD has spoken
this word.
4 📚✭The earth mourns and
fades away;
the world languishes and
fades away,
the haughty people of the earth
languish.
5 📚✭The earth is also defiled
under its inhabitants,
because they have transgressed
the laws,
changed the ordinance,
broken the everlasting
covenant.
6 📚Therefore✭ the curse✭ has
devoured the earth,
and those who live on
it are desolate;
therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned,
and few✭ men are left.
7 📚✭The new wine fails,
the vine languishes,
all the merry hearted sigh.
8 📚The mirth of tambourines
ceases,
the noise of the revelers comes
to an end,
the joy of the harp ceases.
9 📚They will not drink wine
with a song;
strong drink will be bitter
to those who drink it.
10 📚The city of confusion✭ is
broken down.
Every house is shut up,
so that no one comes in.
11 📚In the streets there is
a crying out for wine.
All joy becomes gloom,
the mirth of the land is gone.
12 📚In the city desolation is left,
and the gate is smashed to ruins.
13 📚✭When it becomes like this
inside the land among
the people,
it will be like the shaking
of an olive tree,
and like the gleanings
when grape harvest is ended.
14 📚✭They will raise their voice;
they will sing;
because of the majesty
of the LORD they will cry out
aloud from the sea.
15 📚Therefore glorify the LORD
in the fires,
the name of the LORD God
of Israel in the coastlands
of the sea.
16 📚From the ends of the earth
we have heard songs,
“Glory to the Righteous One”.
But I said✭, “My leanness,
my leanness! Woe to me!
The treacherous deal treacherously;
yes, the treacherous deal
very treacherously”.
17 📚Terror and the pit and
the snare await you,
O inhabitant of the earth.
18 📚✭And it will happen that
the one who flees
from the sound of terror,
will fall into the pit;
and the one who comes up
from inside the pit will be caught
in the snare.
For the windows above
are open✭,
and the foundations
of the earth shake.
19 📚The earth is violently
broken up,
the earth is splintered,
the earth is shaken violently.
20 📚The earth will reel to
and fro like a drunkard,
and will sway like a cottage;
and its transgression will be
heavy on it, and it will fall,
and not rise again.
21 📚And it will come about
in that day✭,
that the LORD will punish
the host of exalted
ones on high✭,
and the kings of the earth
on the earth.
22 📚And they will be gathered
together,
as prisoners are gathered
in the pit✭,
and will be shut up
in the prison;
and after many days they will be
punished✭.
The LORD God will reign in Jerusalem
23 📚✭Then the moon will be
abashed and the sun
ashamed,
for the LORD of hosts✭ will reign
in Mount Zion,
and in Jerusalem,
and before his elders
gloriously.