Here is but little variation from what went before. The representation is as if taken from the prophets vision; the roll is written within and without, and the contents are lamentations, and mourning, and woe; Ezekiel 2:10. One verse is in the midst to explain the cause, It is the curse which devoureth the earth; Genesis 3:17. Reader, think what would have been the sorrow and misery forever, had not Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law, in being made a curse for us; Galatians 3:13. And never fail to connect with this subject, that scripture, 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Isaiah 24:4-12
4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughtyc people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore 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.
7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.