1 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bareand making it desolate.He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
2 people and priest alike,servant and master,female servant and mistress,buyer and seller,lender and borrower,creditor and debtor.
3 The earth will be stripped completely bareand will be totally plundered,for the Lord has spoken this message.
4 The earth mourns and withers;the world wastes away and withers;the exalted people of the earth waste away.
5 The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings,overstepped decrees,and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty;the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,and only a few survive.