24 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

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.

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

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The Judgment on the Earth

24 Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste
    and is about to devastate it,
and he will twist her surface,
    and he will scatter her inhabitants.
And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest;
    as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the female slave, so with her mistress;
    as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
    as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends.
The earth shall be utterly laid waste,
    and it shall be utterly plundered,

for Yahweh has spoken this word.

The earth dries up, it withers;
    the world languishes, it withers.
The elevated of the people of the earth languish,
    and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants.
For they have transgressed laws;
    they have passed by statutes;[a]
    they have broken the everlasting covenant.

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Notas al pie

  1. Isaiah 24:5 Hebrew “statute”