Isaiah 24:12
Solitude is what remains in the city, and calamity will overwhelm its gates.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14For the house has been forsaken. The multitude of the city has been abandoned. A darkness and a covering have been placed over its dens, even unto eternity. It will be the gladness of wild donkeys and the pasture of flocks,
Lamentations 1:1ALEPH. O how a city once filled with people now sits alone! The Governess of the Gentiles has become like a widow. The Prince of the provinces has been placed under tribute.
Lamentations 2:9TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
Micah 1:9For her wound has been in despair. For it has come even to Judah. It has touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Matthew 22:7But when the king heard this, he was angry. And sending out his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and he burned their city.
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 →