Holy Scripture
Isaiah 24:6
A church father on this verse
“After he rebukes those of the circumcision who have trespassed the law of the covenant of God and warns them with what he has written, he prophesies that only a small number of them will be saved. These few are those whom the apostle calls "the remnant according to the election of grace."”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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4The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.
5And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting covenant.
— Isaiah 24:6 —
7The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
8The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.