Isaiah 24
24
City of chaos falls
1Look! The LORD will devastate the earth and destroy it,
will twist its face and scatter its inhabitants.
2It will be the same for the people and for the priest;
for the slave and for his master;
for the female servant and for her mistress;
for the buyer and for the seller;
for the lender and for the borrower;
for the creditor and for the debtor.
3The earth will be devastated, totally devastated;
it will be destroyed, completely destroyed
because the LORD has said it would be so.
4The earth dries up and wilts;
the world withers and wilts;
the heavens wither away with the earth.
5The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants,
for they have disobeyed instruction,
swept aside law,
and broken the ancient covenant.
6Therefore, a curse devours the earth; its inhabitants suffer for their guilt.
Therefore, the earth’s inhabitants dwindle; very few are left.
7The wine dries up;
the vine withers;
all the merry-hearted groan.
8The joyous tambourines have ceased;
the roar of partiers has stopped;
the joyous harp has ceased.
9No one drinks wine or sings;
beer is bitter to its drinkers.
10The town is in chaos, broken;
every house is shut, without entrance.
11There is a cry for wine in the streets.
All joy has reached its dusk;
happiness is exiled from the earth.
12Ruin remains in the city,
and the gate is battered to wreckage.
13It will be like this in the central part of the land and among the peoples,
like an olive tree that has been shaken,
like remains from the grape harvest.
14They raise their voice;
they sing with joy;
from the west they will shout about the LORD’s majesty.
15Therefore, in the east honor the LORD;
in the islands of the sea,
the name of the LORD God of Israel!
16From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
“Glory to the righteous one!”
But I say, “I waste away; I waste away;
I’m doomed!
Betrayers betray; treacherously betrayers betray.”
17Terror, trench, and trap are upon you,
ruler of the earth!
18Whoever flees from the sound of terror will fall into the trench;
whoever climbs from the trench will be caught in the trap.
Heaven’s windows will open, and the earth’s foundations will quake.
19The earth is shattering, shattering;
the earth is shaking, shaking;
the earth is teetering, tottering.
20The earth trembles like a drunk
and shudders like a hut;
its rebellion weighs heavy upon it;
it will fall, no more to rise.
21On that day, the LORD will punish the forces of heaven in heaven, and the kings of the earth on earth. 22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit, shut into a prison, and punished after many days. 23The moon will be diminished, and the sun will fade, since the LORD of heavenly forces will rule on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, glorious before his elders.
Currently Selected:
Isaiah 24: CEB
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
2011 Common English Bible. All rights reserved.
Yeshayah 24
24
1Hinei, Hashem maketh Ha'Aretz empty, and maketh it waste, and ruineth her face, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2And it shall be, as with HaAm, so with the kohen; as with the eved, so with his adonim; as with the shifcha (maid), so with her gevirah (mistress); as with the koneh (buyer), so with the mokher (seller); as with the malveh (lender) so with the loveh (borrower); as with the nosheh (creditor), so with the one owing him.
3HaAretz shall be utterly emptied, and utterly plundered; for Hashem hath spoken this davar (word).
4Ha'aretz mourneth and fadeth away, the tevel (world) languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty Am HaAretz do languish.
5Ha'aretz also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed torot, changed chok (ordinance), broken the Brit Olam.
6Therefore hath the curse devoured Eretz, and they that dwell therein are guilty; therefore, the inhabitants of her#24:6 the earth are diminished, and few enosh (humankind) left.
7The tirosh (new wine) faileth, the gefen languisheth, all the simchei-lev (merryhearted) do sigh.
8The mirth of tambourines ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the kinnor (harp) ceaseth.
9They shall not drink yayin with a shir (song); shechar (liquor, strong drink) shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10The city of tohu is broken; every bais is shut up, that no man may come in.
11There is a crying for yayin in the streets; all simchah is darkened, the mirth of HaAretz is banished.
12In the Ir is left desolation, and the sha'ar is stricken with ruination.
13When thus it shall be in the midst of HaAretz among the nations, there shall be as the shaking of a zayit (olive tree), and as the olelot (gleanings) when the grape harvest is done.
14They shall lift up their kol (voice), they shall sing for the Ga'on (Glory) of Hashem, they shall shout from the yam.
15Therefore glorify ye Hashem in the Urim (east), even the Shem Hashem Elohei Yisroel in the iyyim (islands)#24:15 See Isa 42:4 of the yam.
16From the uttermost part of Ha'Aretz have we heard zemirot (songs), even glory to the Tzaddik (Righteous One). But I said, My wasting away, my wasting away, Oy li (woe unto me)! The bogedim (traitors) have dealt treacherously; the bogedim have dealt very treacherously.
17Pachad (fear), and the pachat (pit), and the pach (pitfall, snare), are upon thee, O inhabitant of Ha'Aretz.
18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the pachad shall fall into the pachat; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pachat shall be caught in the pach; for the arubot (windows [see Gn 7:11]) from on high are opened, and the Mosedei Eretz (foundations of the Earth) do shake.
19Ha'aretz is violently broken down, Ha'Aretz is completely split open, Eretz is shaken exceedingly.
20Ha'aretz shall stagger to and fro like a shikkor (drunkard), and shall shake like a melunah (watchmanʼs hut); and the peysha (transgression) thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21And it shall come to pass in yom hahu (that day), that Hashem shall visit [in punishment] the Tzeva HaMarom (Host on High, Pagan deities), and the melachim of ha'adamah (kings of the earth) upon ha'adamah (the earth).
22And they shall be gathered together, as asir (prisoners) are gathered in the bor (dungeon, pit), and shall be shut up in the masger (prison, dungeon), and after many yamim shall they be visited [in punishment].
23Then the levanah (moon) shall be disgraced, and the chammah (sun) ashamed, when Hashem Tzva'os shall reign in Har Tziyon, and in Yerushalayim, and before His Zekenim gloriously.
Currently Selected:
:
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE
FOURTH EDITION © Artists For Israel Intl Inc., 2002-2011, 2021.