Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

The earth is polluted by its inhabitants,
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.

The moon will be put to shame
and the sun disgraced,
because the Lord of Hosts will reign as king
on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,
and He will display His glory
in the presence of His elders.

On that day the Lord will punish
the host of heaven above
and kings of the earth below.

The new wine mourns;
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.

The earth mourns and withers;
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.

The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.

Therefore, in the east honor the Lord!
In the islands of the west
honor the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.

Whoever flees at the sound of panic
will fall into a pit,
and whoever escapes from the pit
will be caught in a trap.
For the windows are opened from heaven,
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.

From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.

But I said, “I waste away! I waste away!
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.

The earth staggers like a drunkard
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.

They raise their voices, they sing out;
they proclaim in the west
the majesty of the Lord.

They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit.
They will be confined to a dungeon;
after many days they will be punished.

The joyful tambourines have ceased.
The noise of the jubilant has stopped.
The joyful lyre has ceased.

The city of chaos is shattered;
every house is closed to entry.

Panic, pit, and trap await you
who dwell on the earth.

The earth will be stripped completely bare
and will be totally plundered,
for the Lord has spoken this message.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.

For this is how it will be on earth
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

In the streets they cry for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.

They no longer sing and drink wine;
beer is bitter to those who drink it.

Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.