JPS_ASV_Byz(i)
3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled; for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4 The earth fainteth and fadeth away, the world faileth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do fail.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away, and men are left few.
7 The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9 They drink not wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
10 Broken down is the city of wasteness; every house is shut up, that none may come in.
11 There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten unto ruin.
13 For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples, as at the beating of an olive-tree, as at the gleanings when the vintage is done.