Isaiah 24:4-6 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

BBE⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing. ⁵ The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken. ⁶ For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.