LITV(i)
1 Lo, Jehovah empties the land and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.
2 And as it is with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the 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 creditor, so with the debtor.
3 The land shall completely be emptied and utterly stripped, for Jehovah has spoken this word.
4 The land mourns and languishes; the world droops and languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.
5 And the earth is profaned under its inhabitants, because they transgress laws and violate a statute, and break the everlasting covenant.
6 On account of this a curse has devoured the land; and they who live in it are held guilty. For this the dwellers of the land are consumed, and few men are left.
7 The new wine has failed; the vine droops; all the merry-hearted sigh.