Isaiah 24:1–5

¹Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth

and leaves it in ruins.

He will twist its surface

and scatter its inhabitants—

²people and priest alike, servant and master,

maid and mistress, buyer and seller,

lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

³The earth will be utterly laid waste

and thoroughly plundered.

For the LORD has spoken this word.

⁴The earth mourns and withers;

the world languishes and fades;

the exalted of the earth waste away.

⁵The earth is defiled by its people;

they have transgressed the laws;

they have overstepped the decrees

and broken the everlasting covenant.