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title: Isaiah 24
slug: kjv/isaiah-24
createdAt: 2024-08-27T04:35:05.103Z
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**1 **Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. **2 **And 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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. **3 **The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. **4 **The earth mourneth *and* fadeth away, the world languisheth *and* fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. **5 **The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. **6 **Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

**7 **The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

**8 **The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

**9 **They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

**10 **The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

**11 ***There is* a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

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

**13 **When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, *there shall be* as the shaking of an olive tree, *and* as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

**14 **They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

**15 **Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, *even* the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

**16 **From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, *even* glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

**17 **Fear, and the pit, and the snare, *are* upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

**18 **And it shall come to pass, *that* he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

**19 **The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

**20 **The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

**21 **And it shall come to pass in that day, *that* the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones *that are* on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

**22 **And 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.

**23 **Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.