TRANSGRESSION BRINGS A CURSE

BEHOLD, THE LORD WILL MAKE THE LAND

AND THE EARTH EMPTY,

AND MAKE IT WASTE,

AND TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN—

TWIST THE FACE OF IT—

AND SCATTER ABROAD ITS INHABITANTS.

2 And it shall be, as what happens 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 Creditor, so with the Debtor.

3 THE LAND AND THE EARTH

SHALL BE UTTERLY LAID WASTE

AND UTTERLY PILLAGED;

FOR THE LORD HAS SAID THIS.

The Land and the Earth Mourn and Wither,

The World Languishes and Withers,

The High Ones of the people

[And the heavens and the earth] Languish.

THE LAND AND THE EARTH ALSO ARE DEFILED

UNDER THEIR INHABITANS;

BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE LAWS,

DISREGARDED THE STATUTES,

BROKEN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT.

[Gen. 9:1-17; Deut. 29:20.]

THEREFORE THE CURSE HAS DEVOURED

THE LAND AND THE EARTH,

AND THEY WHO DWELL IN IT

SUFFER THE PUNISHMENT OF ITS GUILT;

THEREFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND

AND THE EARTH ARE SCORCHED AND PARCHED

[Under the Curse of God's Wrath].

FEW PEOPLE ARE LEFT.

[Rom. 1:20.]

(Isaiah 24:1-6, AMP)