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The earth will be utterly depopulated
    and completely laid waste —
        for the Lord has spoken this message.[a]

“The earth dries up and withers;
    the world languishes and fades away;
heaven fades away,
    along with the earth.[b]
The earth lies defiled
    beneath its inhabitants;
because they have transgressed the laws,[c]
violated the statutes,
and broken the everlasting covenant.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 24:3 Lit. word
  2. Isaiah 24:4 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac; MT reads the heavens fade away; cf. LXX reads the exalted ones of the earth mourn
  3. Isaiah 24:5 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsac LXX read the Law