1Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants. 2And it shall be, as 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 taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde. 4The earth lamenteth and fadeth away: the world is feeble and decaied: the proude people of the earth are weakened. 5The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne. 8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth. 9They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it. 10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter. 11[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. 13When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, [there shall be] as the shaking of an olive tree, [and] as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. 14They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea. 15Wherefore praise yee the Lord in the valleis, euen the Name of the Lorde God of Israel, in the yles of the sea. 16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. 17Feare, and the pitte, and the snare are vpon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. 19The earth is vtterly broken downe: the earth is cleane dissolued: the earth is mooued exceedingly. 20The earth shal reele to and fro like a drunken man, and shall be remooued like a tent, and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it: so that it shall fall, and rise no more. 21And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones [that are] on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. 23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.