2 And as the people, so shall the priest be: & as the servant, so his master: as the handmaid, so her mistress: as the buyer, so he that selleth: as the lender, so he that borroweth: as he that asketh his due, so he that oweth.📜💬📚

3 With dissipation shall the earth be dissipated, & with spoil it shall be spoiled: for our Lord hath spoken this word.📜💬📚

4 The earth hath mourned, & fallen away, and is weakened: the world is fallen away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened.📜💬📚

5 And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, changed right, dissipated the everlasting covenant.📜💬📚

6 For this cause shall malediction devour the earth, & the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore the dwellers therein shall be mad, & few men shall be left.📜💬📚

7 The vintage hath mourned, the wine is weakened, all have sighed that rejoiced in heart.📜💬📚

8 The joy of timbrels hath ceased, the sound of them that rejoice is left off, the sweetness of the harp is silent.📜💬📚

9 They shall not drink wine with song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.📜💬📚

10 The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut, no man goeth in.📜💬📚

11 There shall be crying for the wine in the streets: all mirth is left: the joy of the earth is carried away.📜💬📚

12 Desolation is left in the city, & calamity shall oppress the gates.📜💬📚

13 Because these things shall be in the midst of the earth, in the midst of peoples, in like manner as if a few olives, which are remaining, should be shaken out of the olive tree; and grapes, when the vintage is ended.📜💬📚

14 These shall lift up their voice, and praise: when our Lord shall be glorified, they shall make a joyful noise from the sea.📜💬📚

15 For this cause in doctrines glorify our Lord: in the isles of the sea the name of our Lord the God of Israel.📜💬📚

16 From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to me, my secret to me, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and by the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.📜💬📚

17 Fear, and pit, and snare upon thee, that art inhabiter of the earth.📜💬📚

18 And it shall be: He that shall fly from the voice of fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be held in the snare: because the floodgates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.📜💬📚

19 With breaking shall the earth be broken, with bruising shall the earth be bruised, with moving shall the earth be moved,📜💬📚

20 with shaking shall the earth be shaken as a drunken man, and shall be taken away as the tabernacle of one night: and the iniquity thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not add to rise again.📜💬📚

21 And it shall be: In that day our Lord will visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth, that are upon the earth.📜💬📚

22 And they shall be gathered together as the gathering of a bundle into the lake, and shall be shut there in prison: and after many days they shall be visited.📜💬📚

23 And the moon shall be confounded, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, & shall be glorified in the sight of his ancients.📜💬📚

Douay Rheims Original ↷

Isaiah 24 📜 📕 ↷

God's Judgment on the Earth

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