| Chapter 24 |
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Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it. --
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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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. --
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The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. --
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The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. --
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The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. --
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Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. --
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The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh. --
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The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. --
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They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. --
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The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. --
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11 |
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. --
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12 |
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. --
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For thus shall it 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. --
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14 |
These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea. --
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Why glorify you Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea. --
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From the uttermost part of the earth have we 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. --
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Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth. --
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It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who 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. --
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The earth is utterly broken, the earth is torn apart, the earth is shaken violently. --
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20 |
The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. --
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21 |
It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. --
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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. --
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23 |
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory. --
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