Isaiah 24:12
The city is in a horrible state of ruin; its gates have been broken down.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14The palace is abandoned, the crowded town is deserted. Castles and watch towers will forever become homes loved by wild donkeys, and places where sheep graze,
Lamentations 1:1How desolate sits the city of Jerusalem, once filled with people! She has become like a widow, she who was once great among the nations. The queen of all the world has become a slave-laborer.
Lamentations 2:9Her gates have collapsed to the ground; he has destroyed their bars, breaking them apart. Her king and her princes have been exiled to other countries. No one follows the Law anymore, and even her prophets no longer receive visions from the Lord.
Micah 1:9Their wound cannot be healed, it has extended to Judah, and reached right to the gates of Jerusalem.
Matthew 22:7The king became furious. He sent his soldiers to destroy those murderers and burn down their town.
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 →