1. Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it naked and turns it upside down and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2. And it shall be, as with the people so with the priest; as with the slave so with his master; as with the maid so with her mistress; as with the buyer so with the seller; as with the lender so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury so with the giver of usury to him.
3. The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for the Lord has spoken this word.
4. The earth has destroyed itself and fallen; the world has become sick and fallen; the haughty peoples of the earth are become sick.
5. The earth is also become bankrupt under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, falsified the order, broken the everlasting covenant.
6. Therefore the curse has consumed the earth, and those that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men left.
7. The new wine is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh.
8. The mirth of tambourines ceases; the noise of those that rejoice ends; the joy of the harp ceases.
9. They shall not drink wine with a song; the drink shall be bitter to them that would drink it.
10. The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up that no man may come in.
11. There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened; the mirth of the land is gone.
12. In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13. For thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the peoples as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
14. These shall lift up their voice; they shall sing joyfully in the majesty of the Lord; they shall lift up their voice from the sea.
15. Therefore glorify ye the Lord in the valleys; let the Lord God of Israel be called upon by name in the isles of the sea.