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,
5 and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse devours the earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn, and few men are left.
7 The new wine dries up; the vine languishes. All the merry of heart sigh;