Isaiah 24:1-8

1Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

2people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

3The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the Lord has spoken this message.

4The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away.

5The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant.

6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth’s inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.

7The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.

8The joyful tambourines have ceased. The noise of the jubilant has stopped. The joyful lyre has ceased.