Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
In Context
8The mirth of tambourine ceases. The noise of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
Cross References
Isaiah 16:10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field. And in the vineyards there shall be no singing nor joyful noise. No treader shall tread out wine in the presses. I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.
Isaiah 32:10For ye shall be troubled days beyond a year, ye careless women. For the vintage shall fail; the ingathering shall not come.
Ezekiel 6:14And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations. And they shall know that I am LORD.
Joel 1:10The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
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 →