Isaiah 24:12
In the Ir is left desolation, 1 and the sha'ar is stricken with ruination. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; 1 the multitude of the Ir shall be abandoned; 1 the citadel and stronghold shall be ruins ad olam, 1 a delight of wild donkeys, 1 a pasture of adarim (flocks); 1
Lamentations 1:1How doth HaIr (the city, Yerushalayim) sit solitary, 1 that was full of people! 1 How is she become like an almanah (widow)! 1 She that was great among the Goyim, 1 and sarah (princess) among the provinces, 1 how is she become a forced laborer! 1
Lamentations 2:9Her she'arim are sunk into the ground; 1 He hath destroyed and broken her bars; 1 her melech and her sarim (princes) are among the Goyim; 1 the torah is no more; 1 her nevi'im also find no chazon (vision) from Hashem. 1
Micah 1:9For her wound is incurable; 1 for it is come unto Yehudah; 1 it is come unto the sha'ar ami (gate of my people) 1 even to Yerushalayim. 1
Matthew 22:7So the Melech was angry and, having sent his armies, the King destroyed those ratzchaniyot (murderers), and their city he burned.
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 →