Isaiah 24:1, 5-6, 18-22

Behold! The Lord YAHWEH is about to devastate the earth and make it desolate. He will mar its surface and scatter the inhabitants.

The people have polluted the earth beneath their feet by disobeying laws, violating truth, and breaking the ancient, everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse devours the earth; its people suffer under their guilt, causing earth’s inhabitants to dwindle, and their number is reduced to so few.

The one who flees from the report of terror will fall into the pit. And whoever crawls out of the pit will be caught by the trap. Heaven’s floodgates opened and earth’s foundations trembled. The earth is breaking, breaking! The earth is crumbling, crumbling! The earth is tottering, tottering! The earth staggers like a drunkard, as a hut sways in a storm. Its sin lies heavy upon it; it falls to rise no more. In that day, the Lord YAHWEH will punish heaven’s host and the kings of the earth. They will be gathered together and locked up in a prison like prisoners in a pit, and after many days, they will be punished.