^{1 Ref} Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned `it on' its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

^{2 Ref} And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting `it' on himself.

^{3 Ref} Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:

^{4 Ref} Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.

^{5 Ref} And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.