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Isaiah 24:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The earth wilts away; its mighty leaders melt to nothing.

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On that day the LORD will punish the powers in the heavens and the kings of the earth.

The earth will be stripped bare and left that way. This is what the LORD has promised.

The city of Samaria above a fertile valley is in for trouble! Its leaders are drunkards, who stuff themselves with food and wine. But they will be like flowers that dry up and wilt.

The city will mourn and sit in the dust, emptied of its people.

Fields are dry and barren; Mount Lebanon wilts with shame. Sharon Valley is a desert; the forests of Bashan and Carmel have lost their leaves.

We are unfit to worship you; each of our good deeds is merely a filthy rag. We dry up like leaves; our sins are storm winds sweeping us away.

How long will the ground be dry and the pasture lands parched? The birds and animals are dead and gone. And all this happened because the people are so sinful. They even boast, “God can't see the sins we commit.”

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!

And so your land is a desert. Every living creature is dying— people and wild animals, birds and fish.

Barren fields mourn; grain, grapes, and olives are scorched and shrivelled.




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