Isaiah 24:7

The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

6That is why a curse is destroying the earth. The people suffer because of their guilt. The inhabitants of the earth are burned up and only a few survive.

8The happy sound of tambourines is over; the noise of the party-goers has stopped; the delightful harp music has finished.

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Cross References

Isaiah 16:10Joy and happiness are gone. Nobody celebrates in the harvest fields or the vineyards; nobody shouts happily. Nobody treads grapes in the winepresses. I have stopped their cheering.

Isaiah 32:10In just over a year, you who think yourselves so safe will tremble with fear. The grape harvest is going to fail and there'll be no harvest.

Ezekiel 6:14I'm going to lift up my hand to punish them. In every place they live I will make their country a wasteland, all the way from the desert in the south to Diblah in the north. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Joel 1:10The fields are devastated, the earth mourns; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dries up, the olive oil fails.

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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