Isaiah 24:12
And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves forever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds’ pastures;
Lamentations 1:1How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! 1 She is become as a widow: 1 She that was magnified among the nations, 1 And princess among the provinces, 1 Has become tributary. 1
Lamentations 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground: 1 He has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, 1 And her king and her prince among the Gentiles: 1 There is no law, 1 Nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord. 1
Micah 1:9For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Judah; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
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 →