Isaiah 24:4-6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ The earth mourns and withers,
    the world languishes and withers;
    the heavens languish together with the earth.
⁵ The earth lies polluted
    under its inhabitants;
for they have transgressed the laws,
    violated the statutes,
    broken the everlasting covenant.
⁶ Therefore a curse devours the earth,
    and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
    and few men are left.