Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 24

Isaiah 24 – 25

Through My Bible – December 24

Isaiah 24 – 25 (EHV)

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The Lord Will Judge the Earth

Isaiah 24

¹Watch, the Lord is going to strip the earth bare and make it desolate.
He will wring it out and scatter its inhabitants.
²It will be the same for people and priest,
    for servant and master,
    for servant girl and lady,
    for buyer and seller,
    for lender and borrower,
    for creditor and debtor.
³The earth will be stripped bare, totally plundered,
    for the Lord has spoken this word.
⁴The earth mourns and withers.
The world fades and withers away.
The proud people of the earth fade away.
⁵The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
because they have bypassed the laws.
They have changed the statutes
and set aside the everlasting covenant.
⁶Therefore a curse devours the earth,
and those who live there will be found guilty.
That is why the inhabitants of the earth will be burned up,
and so few will remain.
⁷The new wine mourns.
The vine dries up.
Those who were feeling merry now sigh.
⁸The happy sound of drums has ceased.
The noise of partying has ended.
The joyful lyre is silent.
⁹They will drink no wine with their songs anymore.
Beer^[1] is bitter to those who drink it.
¹⁰The city is in chaos and ruins.
Every house is closed up,
and no one can get in.
¹¹They cry for wine in the streets,
but all festive joy is gone.
Joyful celebration is banished from the land.
¹²The city is left desolate,
and the gate is smashed into pieces.
¹³This is the way it will be among the peoples on earth:
It will be like an olive tree after it has been picked over,
like the gleanings left after the grape harvest.

¹⁴They raise their voices and sing for joy.
From the west^[2] they shout for the majesty of the Lord.
¹⁵Therefore, in the east^[3] glorify the Lord.
In the coastlands of the sea, glorify the name of the Lord,
the God of Israel!
¹⁶We hear songs from the ends of the earth:
Glory to the Righteous One!

But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me!”
The treacherous deal treacherously.
Yes, the treacherous deal very treacherously.

¹⁷Panic, pit, and peril^[4] await all who live on the earth.
¹⁸Whoever flees from the noise of terror will fall into the pit.
Whoever crawls out of the pit will be caught in the trap.
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