Behold the Lord shall lay waste the earth, and shall strip it, and shall afflict the face thereof, and scatter abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth. 3With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. 4The earth mourned, and faded away, and is weakened: the world faded away, the height of the people of the earth is weakened. 5And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant. 6Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. 7The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed. 8The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent. 9They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in. 11There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away. 12Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates. 13For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.