1 Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste and is about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her 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 female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends.
3 The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,