1 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it naked and turns it upside down and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And it shall be, as with the people so with the priest; as with the slave 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.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for the Lord has spoken this word.
4 The earth has destroyed itself and fallen; the world has become sick and fallen; the haughty peoples of the earth are become sick.
5 The earth is also become bankrupt under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, falsified the order, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore the curse has consumed the earth, and those that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men left.
7 The new wine is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh.