Isaiah 24:11
There will be a clamor for wine in the streets. All rejoicing has been abandoned. The gladness of the earth has been carried away.
Catholic Public Domain 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 city of vanity has been worn away. Every house has been closed up; no one enters.
12Solitude is what remains in the city, and calamity will overwhelm its gates.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul.
Isaiah 9:19The earth has been shaken by the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and the people will become like fuel for the fire. A man will not spare his own brother.
Isaiah 24:7The vintage has mourned. The vine has languished. All those who were rejoicing in their hearts have groaned.
Isaiah 32:13Thorn and brier will rise up, over the soil of my people. How much more over all the houses of gladness, over the city of exultation?
Jeremiah 48:33Rejoicing and exultation has been taken away from Carmel and from the land of Moab. And I have taken the wine from the winepresses. The treader of grapes will no longer sing the usual rhythmic chant.
Hosea 7:14And they have not cried out to me in their heart, but they howled on their beds. They have obsessed about wheat and wine; they have withdrawn from me.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 →