Isaiah 24:1-13

Christian Standard Bible

24 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
² people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
³ The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.^(A)
4 The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
⁵ The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,^(B)
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the permanent covenant.^(C)
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,^(D)
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.
⁷ The new wine mourns;^(E)
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.
⁸ The joyful tambourines^(F) have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.
⁹ They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.
¹⁰ The city of chaos is shattered;^(G)
every house is closed to entry.^(H)
11 In the streets they cry^[a] for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
¹² Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
¹³ For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.^(I)