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Judgment
on the Earth |
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| Isaiah 24:1 |
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Behold, the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates
it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants. |
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| Isaiah 24:2 |
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And the people will be like the priest, the
servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller,
the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor. |
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| Isaiah 24:3 |
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The earth will be completely laid waste and
completely despoiled, for the LORD has spoken this word. |
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| Isaiah 24:4 |
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The earth mourns and withers, the world fades
and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away. |
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| Isaiah 24:5 |
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The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants,
for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant. |
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| Isaiah 24:6 |
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Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those
who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
and few men are left. |
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| Isaiah 24:7 |
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The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the
merry-hearted sigh. |
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| Isaiah 24:8 |
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The gaiety of tambourines ceases, The noise
of revelers stops, The gaiety of the harp ceases. |
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| Isaiah 24:9 |
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They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink
is bitter to those who drink it. |
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| Isaiah 24:10 |
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The city of chaos is broken down; Every house
is shut up so that none may enter. |
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| Isaiah 24:11 |
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There is an outcry in the streets concerning
the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The gaiety of the earth is banished. |
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| Isaiah 24:12 |
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Desolation is left in the city And the gate
is battered to ruins. |
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| Isaiah 24:13 |
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For thus it will be in the midst of the earth
among the peoples, As the shaking of an olive tree, As the gleanings when the
grape harvest is over. |
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| Isaiah 24:14 |
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They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
They cry out from the west concerning the majesty of the LORD. |
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| Isaiah 24:15 |
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Therefore glorify the LORD in the east, The
name of the LORD, the God of Israel, In the coastlands of the sea. |
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| Isaiah 24:16 |
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From the ends of the earth we hear songs, "Glory
to the Righteous One," But I say, "Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me! The treacherous
deal treacherously, And the treacherous deal very treacherously." |
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| Isaiah 24:17 |
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Terror and pit and snare Confront you, O inhabitant
of the earth. |
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| Isaiah 24:18 |
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Then it will be that he who flees the report
of disaster will fall into the pit, And he who climbs out of the pit will be caught
in the snare; For the windows above are opened, and the foundations of the earth
shake. |
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| Isaiah 24:19 |
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The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split
through, The earth is shaken violently. |
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| Isaiah 24:20 |
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The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard And
it totters like a shack, For its transgression is heavy upon it, And it will fall,
never to rise again. |
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| Isaiah 24:21 |
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So it will happen in that day, That the LORD
will punish the host of heaven on high, And the kings of the earth on earth. |
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| Isaiah 24:22 |
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They will be gathered together Like prisoners
in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will
be punished. |
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| Isaiah 24:23 |
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Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed,
For the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, And His glory
will be before His elders. |
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