Scripture of the Day - Isaiah

To me this speaks of an End of the Age event that has thus far escaped identification by theologians and the mainstream of our faith heretofore. I cannot avoid thinking of a bolide impact or series of impacts that is a near-extinction event for Mankind hence the "burning" and this is the only agent that could achieve that specific effect on a global scale. Even all the world's nukes detonating would not come close to achieving what is described here. 

"The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the proud people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few of them remain."

~ Isaiah 24:4-6 (Kimicus ad Absurdum translation)