Isaiah 24:4-12

CLV(i) 4 Mournful, disintegrated is the earth. Enfeebled, disintegrated is the habitance. Enfeebled are the heights of the people of the land, 5 and the land is polluted under its dwellers. For they trespass against the laws; they vary the statute; they annul the covenant eonian. 6 Therefore an imprecation devours the land, and dwellers in it are guilty. Therefore the dwellers are drained out of the land, and there remain but a bit of the mortals." 7 Mournful is the grape juice; enfeebled is the vine. Sigh does every rejoicing heart. 8 Cease does the elation of tambourines. Left off is the tumult of the joyous. Cease does the elation of the harp. 9 Ashamed, they are drinking no wine. And the intoxicant is bitter to its drinkers." 10 Broken is every town--a chaos. Locked is every house against entry. 11 Yelling over the wine is in the streets; the eventide is it for all rejoicing. Deported is all the elation of the land. 12 And there remains in the city, desolation, and houses, forsaken, perish, and a tumult is pounding the gate."