Holy Scripture
Isaiah 24:5
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 4, 5.) The earth mourned and declined, and became weak: the world declined, the height of the people of the earth became weak, and the earth was destroyed by its inhabitants. (LXX: The earth mourns, the world is corrupted, the lofty ones of the earth mourn, but the earth acts wickedly due to its inhabitants. Go…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting covenant.
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3The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.
4The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.
— Isaiah 24:5 —
6Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.
7The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.