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Isaiah 24:8

Good News Translation

and the joyful music of their harps and drums has ceased.

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make it a barren, joyless night.

Where once I heard joyful music, now I hear only mourning and weeping.

On the willows near by we hung up our harps.

No one is happy now in the fertile fields. No one shouts or sings in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes to make wine; the shouts of joy are ended.

At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes—and wine. But you don't understand what the Lord is doing,

The world of the dead is hungry for them, and it opens its mouth wide. It gulps down the nobles of Jerusalem along with the noisy crowd of common people.

Listen to what I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, have to say. I will silence the sounds of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. The people here will live to see this happen.

I will silence their shouts of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. They will have no oil for their lamps, and there will be no more grain.

The land will become a desert. In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the happy sounds of wedding feasts.

The old people no longer sit at the city gate, and the young people no longer make music.

I will put an end to all your songs, and I will silence the music of your harps.

You lived in Eden, the garden of God, and wore gems of every kind: rubies and diamonds; topaz, beryl, carnelian, and jasper; sapphires, emeralds, and garnets. You had ornaments of gold. They were made for you on the day you were created.

I will put an end to all her festivities—her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations—all her religious meetings.

So you will be the first to go into exile. Your feasts and banquets will come to an end.

The music of harps and of human voices, of players of the flute and the trumpet, will never be heard in you again! No workman in any trade will ever be found in you again; and the sound of the millstone will be heard no more!




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