Isaiah 24:12
Desolation is left in the city, And the gate is smitten into ruins.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
In Context
11There is a cry for wine in the streets; All gladness is departed; The mirth of the land is gone;
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14For the palace shall be forsaken; The tumult of the city shall be solitary; The fortified hill and the tower shall be dens forever; The joy of wild-asses, the pasture of flocks;
Lamentations 1:1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary!
Lamentations 2:9Her gates are sunk into the earth; he hath destroyed and broken her bars; Her king and her princes are among the nations; The law is no more; Her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.
Micah 1:9For her wound is mortal; It extendeth to Judah; It reacheth to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Matthew 22:7And the king was enraged; and sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
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 →