1. Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bareand making it desolate.He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
2. people and priest alike,servant and master,female servant and mistress,buyer and seller,lender and borrower,creditor and debtor.
3. The earth will be stripped completely bareand will be totally plundered,for the Lord has spoken this message.
4. The earth mourns and withers;the world wastes away and withers;the exalted people of the earth waste away.