Thomson(i)
1 Behold the Lord is about to destroy this inhabited land! He will lay it waste and uncover the face thereof and scatter abroad them who dwell therein.
2 And it shall be as with the people so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the debtor, so with the creditor.
3 With destruction the land will be destroyed, and with spoiling this land will be ransacked: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this.
4 The land mourned and this empire is destroyed; the lofty people of the land mourned.
5 As for the land, it transgressed by means of its inhabitants. Because they transgressed the law, and changed the institutions; the everlasting covenant,
6 therefore a curse devoureth the land. Because they who dwell therein have sinned, therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be distressed, and few are the men who shall be left.
7 The wine will mourn, the vineyard will mourn, and all that were merry hearted will sigh.
8 The mirth of the tabrets hath ceased, the sound of the kithara is no more.
9 They are confounded: they have drunk no wine. The palm wine was bitter to them who drank it.
10 Every city is desolated: the houses will be shut up that none may enter.
11 Raise the mournful cry every where for the wine. A stop is put to all the joy of the land; all the joy of the land is gone.
12 The cities will be left desolate, and the houses being forsaken will be destroyed.