God’s Judgment on the Earth
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth Isa 2:19Nam 2:10Isa 24:20Isa 42:152Ki 21:13Ezk 12:20Ezk 35:14Isa 6:11-12
and leaves it in ruins.
He will twist its surface
and scatter its inhabitants—
people and priest alike, servant and master, Hos 4:9Ezk 7:12-13Lam 5:12-142Ch 36:14-172Ch 36:20Dan 9:5-8Deu 23:19-20Eph 6:8-9
maid and mistress, buyer and seller,
lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
The earth will be utterly laid waste Isa 24:1Isa 6:112Ch 36:21Deu 29:23Deu 29:28Ezk 36:4Isa 21:17Isa 22:25
and thoroughly plundered.
For the LORD has spoken this word.
The earth mourns and withers; Hos 4:3Isa 2:11-12Isa 3:26Isa 33:9Isa 28:1Isa 64:6Jer 12:4Jer 4:28
the world languishes and fades;
the exalted of the earth waste away.
The earth is defiled by its people; Heb 13:20Rom 8:20-21Dan 7:25Heb 9:12Ch 33:92Ki 17:7-232Ki 22:13-172Ki 23:26-27
they have transgressed the laws;
they have overstepped the decrees
and broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, Mal 4:1Mat 7:14Zec 5:3-4Ezk 5:3Lev 26:22Mal 4:6Rom 9:272Pe 3:10
and its inhabitants must bear the guilt;
the earth’s dwellers have been burned,
and only a few survive.
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. Isa 16:10Isa 16:8Jol 1:10-12Hos 9:1-2Isa 32:9-13
All the merrymakers now groan.
The joyful tambourines have ceased; Hos 2:11Ezk 26:13Jer 7:34Rev 18:22Jer 16:9Jer 25:10Isa 23:15-16Isa 5:12
the noise of revelers has stopped;
the joyful harp is silent.
They no longer sing and drink wine; Ecc 9:7Isa 5:22Amo 6:5-7Amo 8:10Amo 8:3Eph 5:18-19Isa 5:11-12Isa 5:20
strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
The city of chaos is shattered; Rev 18:2Rev 17:5-62Ki 25:42Ki 25:9-10Gen 11:9Isa 23:1Isa 24:12Isa 25:2
every house is closed to entry.
In the streets they cry out for wine. Hos 7:14Amo 5:16-20Isa 16:10Isa 24:7-9Isa 32:13Isa 8:22Isa 9:19Jer 48:33
All joy turns to gloom;
rejoicing is exiled from the land.
The city is left in ruins; Isa 32:14Jer 9:11Lam 1:1Lam 1:4Lam 2:9Lam 5:18Mic 1:12Mic 1:9
its gate is reduced to rubble.
So will it be on the earth Isa 1:9Ezk 11:16-20Ezk 14:22-23Ezk 6:8-11Ezk 7:16Ezk 9:4-6Isa 10:20-22Isa 17:5-6
and among the nations,
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
They raise their voices, they shout for joy; Isa 12:1-6Isa 25:1Isa 26:1Isa 27:2Isa 35:10Isa 35:2Isa 40:9Isa 44:23
from the west 1they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.
Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Mal 1:11Isa 42:10Isa 42:4Isa 49:1Isa 51:5Isa 60:91Pe 1:71Pe 3:15
Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel
in the islands 2of the sea.
From the ends of the earth we hear singing: Isa 21:2Isa 33:1Jer 3:20Jer 5:11Act 13:47Exo 15:11Hab 1:3Hos 5:7
“Glory to the Righteous One.”
But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away!
Woe is me.”
The treacherous betray;
the treacherous deal in treachery.
Terror and pit and snare await you, Jer 48:43-441Ki 19:17Amo 5:19Ezk 14:21Jer 8:3Lev 26:21-22
O dweller of the earth.
Whoever flees the sound of panic Gen 7:11Psa 18:7Amo 5:19Job 20:24Jos 10:10-11Psa 18:15Psa 46:2-31Ki 20:29-30
will fall into the pit,
and whoever climbs from the pit
will be caught in the snare.
For the windows of heaven are open,
and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
The earth is utterly broken apart, Isa 34:4-10Deu 11:6Isa 24:1-5Jer 4:23-28Nam 1:5Rev 20:11Hab 3:6Mat 24:3
the earth is split open,
the earth is shaken violently.
The earth staggers like a drunkard Isa 19:14Dan 11:19Isa 29:9Amo 8:14Hos 4:1-5Rev 18:21Lam 1:14Zec 5:5-8
and sways like a shack.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.
In that day the LORD will punish Psa 76:12Zec 14:12-19Isa 34:2-17Isa 10:12Psa 149:6-9Ezk 38:1-23Isa 10:25-27Isa 14:1-2
the host of heaven above
and the kings of the earth below.
They will be gathered together Zec 9:11Isa 42:22Jer 38:6-13Ezk 38:8Isa 10:4Isa 2:19Isa 24:17Jos 10:16-17
like prisoners in a pit.
They will be confined to a dungeon
and punished after many days.
The moon will be confounded Isa 60:19Isa 13:10Rev 21:23Rev 22:5Heb 12:22Isa 12:6Isa 30:26Mic 4:7
and the sun will be ashamed;
for the LORD of Hosts will reign
on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and before His elders with great glory.