Isaiah 24 — T4T

The destruction of everything on the earth

24Verse 1Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth.He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert
and scatter its people.^{Verse 2}He will scatter everyone—priests and common people,
servants and their masters,
maids and their mistresses,
buyers and sellers,
lenders and borrowers,
people who owe money and people who are owed money.^{Verse 3}Nothing that is worth anything will be left on earth;everything valuable will be destroyed.That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it.^{Verse 4}Everything on the earth will dry up and die [DOU];its important people will become weak and unimportant.^{Verse 5}The earth has become unacceptable to Yahweh because the people who live on it have disobeyed his laws;they have rejected the agreement that he intended to last forever.^{Verse 6}Therefore, Yahweh will curse the earth;the people who live on it must be punished because of the sins that they have committed.They will be destroyed by fire,and only a few people will remain alive.^{Verse 7}The grapevines will wither,and there will be no grapes to make wine.All the people who were previously happy will then groan and mourn.
^{Verse 8}People will no longer play cheerful songs with tambourines,people will no longer play joyfully on their harps,
and people will no longer shout noisily during their celebrations.^{Verse 9}People will no longer sing while they drink wine,and all their alcoholic drinks will taste bitter.^{Verse 10}Towns and cities will be desolate;every house will be locked to prevent thieves from entering.^{Verse 11}Mobs will gather in the streets, wanting wine;no one on the earth will be happy [DOU] any more.^{Verse 12}Cities will be ruinedand all their gates will be battered/broken into pieces.^{Verse 13}It will be like that all over the earth:there will only be a few people still alive,like what happens when workers beat all the olives off a tree and there are only a few left,or when they harvest the grapes and there are only a few left on the vines.^{Verse 14}But those who are left alive will sing joyfully;people in nations to the west of Israel will declare that Yahweh is very great;^{Verse 15}people in nations to the east of Israel will also praise Yahweh [MTY];in countries across the sea, people will praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship.^{Verse 16}We will hear people in the most distant places on the earth singing praise to Yahweh, the truly righteous one.
But now, I am [SYN] very sad.Weep for me, because I have become thin and weak.Terrible things are happening!Treacherous people still betray/deceive others everywhere [DOU].^{Verse 17}You people all over the earth,you will be terrified,
and you will fall into deep pits and traps/snares.^{Verse 18}Those who try to flee because they are terrifiedwill fall into deep pits,and those who climb out of the pitswill be caught by traps/snares.
The sky will split open and torrents [SIM] of rain will fall;the foundations of the earth will shake.^{Verse 19}The earth will split apart and be shattered;it will shake violently.^{Verse 20}It will be as though the earth will stagger like [SIM] a drunk;it will shake like [SIM] a hut shakes in a windstorm.It will collapse and not be able to rise again,because the guilt of the people who rebel against Yahweh is very great.^{Verse 21}At that time, Yahweh will punish the wicked powerful beings in the skiesand the wicked kings on the earth.^{Verse 22}They will all be gathered together and thrown into a dungeon/pit.They will be shut/locked in that dungeon/pit,and later they will be punished.
^{Verse 23}At that time the light of the moon and the sun will be lessened;it will be as though they are ashamed in the presence of Yahweh,because he, the Commander of the armies of angels, will rule gloriously ◄on Zion Hill/in Jerusalem►,in the presence of the leaders of his people.