Isaiah 24:8
The joy of tambourines has ceased, || The noise of exulting ones has ceased, || The joy of a harp has ceased.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
In Context
7The new wine has mourned, the vine languished, || All the joyful of heart have sighed.
9They do not drink wine with a song, || Strong drink is bitter to those drinking it.
Cross References
Psalms 137:2We hung our harps on willows in its midst.
Isaiah 23:15And it has come to pass in that day, || That Tyre is forgotten seventy years, || According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am causing to cease from this place, || Before your eyes, and in your days, || The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, || The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.
Ezekiel 26:13And I have caused the noise of your songs to cease, || And the voice of your harps is heard no more.
Amos 6:7Therefore they now go at the head of the captives, || And the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones is turned aside.
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 →