1. Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste and is about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.
2. And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, 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 one to whom he lends.
3. The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.
4. The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,