Isaiah 24:7

The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

In Context

6For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

8The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

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Cross References

Isaiah 16:10And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

Isaiah 32:10In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes.

Ezekiel 6:14And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Joel 1:10The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

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 →

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