Isaiah 24:4
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.In other versions
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
ASV
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
BBE
The land mourneth, it fadeth away; the world languisheth, it fadeth away: the haughty people of the land do languish.
DBY
The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
WEB
Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.
YLT
The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
ENG
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
WBT
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
BSB
In context
2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his 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 taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
