The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

Lo, Jehovah empties the land and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.

And as [it is] with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

The land shall completely be emptied and utterly stripped, for Jehovah has spoken this word.

The land mourns [and] languishes; the world droops [and] languishes; the proud people of the earth droop.

And the earth is profaned under its inhabitants, because they transgress laws and violate a statute, and break the everlasting covenant.

On account of this a curse has devoured the land; and they who live in it are held guilty. For this the dwellers of the land are consumed, and few men are left.

The new wine has failed; the vine droops; all the merry-hearted sigh.

The joy of timbrels ceases; the noise of those who revel ends; the joy of the harp ceases.

They shall not drink wine with a song; fermented drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.