1Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth, and laying it waste,—And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein. 2And it shall be—As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so, his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress,—As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor. 3Emptied—emptied—shall be the earth, yea pillaged—pillaged,—For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word. 4Mourneth, fadeth, the earth, Languisheth, fadeth, the world,—Languished, have the lofty of the people of the earth. 5Yea, the earth itself, is profaned under them who dwell therein,—For they have, Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age-abiding covenant. 6For this cause, a curse, hath devoured the earth, And punished are the dwellers therein,—For this cause, are burned the inhabitants of the earth, And the men left remaining—are few. 7Mourneth, the new wine, Withereth, the vine,—Sighing, are all the merryhearted: 8Ceased, hath the mirth of timbrels, Ended, is the noise of the uproarious,—Ceased, hath the mirth of the lyre: 9With a song, they drink not wine,—Bitter, is strong drink, to them who drink it: 10Broken down, is the city of desolation,—Shut up, every house, that it cannot be entered. 11There is an outcry concerning wine, in the streets,—Darkened, is all joy, Departed, the gladness of the earth. 12There is left in the city, desolation,—And, to ruins, have been broken the gate.

13When, thus, it shall be, in the earth, in the midst of the peoples, [There shall be,] like the shaking of an olive-tree, like the going round to pick, when closed, is the harvest. 14They, shall lift up their voice—shall raise a tremulous note,—On account of the splendour of Yahweh, have they made a shrill cry, on the West; 15For this cause, In the Regions of Light, give ye glory to Yahweh,—In the Coastlands of the Sea, [unto] the Name of Yahweh, God of Israel.

16From the uttermost part of the earth, melodies, have we heard—Beauty, to the righteous one! But I had said—Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! Traitors, have betrayed, Yea, traitorously, have traitors betrayed! 17Terror and pit, and snare,—are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth! 18So shall it be—He that fleeth from the sound of the terror, shall fall into the pit, And, he that getteth up out of the midst of the pit, shall be captured in the snare,—For, the windows on high, have opened, And shaken, are the foundations of earth. 19The earth breaketh, breaketh,—The earth crasheth, crasheth, The earth tottereth, tottereth; 20The earth staggereth-staggereth, like a drunken man, And rocketh to and fro like a night-hut,—So shall be heavy upon her, her transgression, And she shall fall, and, not again, rise. 21And it shall be, in that day, That Yahweh will bring punishment, Upon the host of the height, in the height,—And upon the kings of the ground, on the ground. 22And they shall be swept together in a crowd, fettered for a pit, And shall be lowered into a dungeon,—And, after many days, shall they be punished. 23Then shall blush, the silvery moon, Then turn pale, the glowing sun,—Because Yahweh of hosts, hath become king, In Mount Zion, And in Jerusalem, And before his Elders, in glory.