^{3 Ref} The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.

^{4 Ref} 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.

^{5 Ref} The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

^{6 Ref} For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

^{7 Ref} The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

^{8 Ref} The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

^{9 Ref} There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

^{10 Ref} The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

^{11 Ref} There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

^{12 Ref} In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

^{13 Ref} For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.