The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
The world - Hebrew, tebeel, the habitable world; especially here the God-opposed world-power, with all its The world - Hebrew, tebeel, the habitable world; especially here the God-opposed world-power, with all its might; as in Isaiah 13:11, Babylon.
The haughty people of the earth do languish - Merom am haaretz; literally, the height of the people of the earth: abstract for concrete - i:e., the high people; even the nobles share the general distress.
The cause of this universal subverting of the social frame-work.