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“The earth dries up and withers;
    the world languishes and fades away;
heaven fades away,
    along with the earth.[a]
The earth lies defiled
    beneath its inhabitants;
because they have transgressed the laws,[b]
violated the statutes,
and broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore the curse keeps on consuming,[c]
    and its inhabitants are declared guilty.
Furthermore, the inhabitants of earth are ablaze,
    and few people are left.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 24:4 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac; MT reads the heavens fade away; cf. LXX reads the exalted ones of the earth mourn
  2. Isaiah 24:5 So 1QIsaa MT; 4QIsac LXX read the Law
  3. Isaiah 24:6 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsac MT LXX read consuming the earth