Isaiah 24 in the early church

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.