1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof. Compare verse1 commentary
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his 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 taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. Compare verse4 commentaries
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word. Compare verse1 commentary
4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. Compare verse1 commentary
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Compare verse1 commentary
6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. Compare verse2 commentaries
7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh. Compare verse1 commentary
8 The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. Compare verse1 commentary
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. Compare verse1 commentary
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. Compare verse1 commentary
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. Compare verse1 commentary
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Compare verse1 commentary
13 When thus it shall be in the middle of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. Compare verse1 commentary
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. Compare verse1 commentary
15 Why glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. Compare verse4 commentaries
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Compare verse2 commentaries
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of the earth. Compare verse1 commentary
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the middle of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. Compare verse1 commentary
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. Compare verse1 commentary
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy on it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. Compare verse1 commentary
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. Compare verse1 commentary
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. Compare verse1 commentary
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. Compare verse3 commentaries