Isaiah 24:11
There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
10All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.
12And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:
Isaiah 9:19But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.
Isaiah 24:7The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
Isaiah 32:13As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.
Hosea 7:14And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.
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 →