## The earth will be completely devastated and completely stripped ##

AT: "Yahweh will completely devastate the earth and he will remove everything with value." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and fades away ##

AT: "Everything on earth will dry up and die. (UDB)  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

## The earth is polluted by its inhabitants ##

AT: "The people have polluted the earth"

## they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant ##

"they have not obeyed God's laws and statutes, and they have broken God's eternal covenant"