Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
In Context
10The waste city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
12Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.
Isaiah 9:19Through the wrath of LORD of hosts is the land burnt up, and the people are as the fuel of fire; no man spares his brother.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh.
Isaiah 32:13Thorns and briers shall come up on the land of my people, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Jeremiah 48:33And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses. None shall tread with shouting. The shouting shall be no shouting.
Hosea 7:14And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 24:2-13
General Desolation Announced. ( b. c. 718.) 1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly… Read the whole commentary →