Isaiah 24:11
There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.
12Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to them that are sad: and wine to them that are grieved in mind:
Isaiah 9:19By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Isaiah 24:7The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merryhearted have sighed.
Isaiah 32:13Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?
Jeremiah 48:33Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of Moab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of the grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.
Hosea 7:14And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed 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 →