Isaiah 24:8
The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
9They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.
Cross References
Psalms 137:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, 1 And give thanks to thy name, 1 On account of thy mercy and thy truth; 1 For thou hast magnified thy holy name above everything. 1
Isaiah 23:15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will make to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Ezekiel 26:13And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries shall be heard no more.
Amos 6:7Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.
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 →