Isaiah 24:12

In the city is left a desolation, and the gate is broken into a ruin. 1

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In The King James Version

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

In Context

11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; 1 all joy is darkened, the gladness of the land has disappeared. 1

13For this is how it will be on the whole earth among the nations, 1 as when an olive tree is beaten, as the gleanings when the grape harvest is done. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be forsaken, the crowded city will be deserted; 1 the hill and the watchtower will become caves forever, 1 a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; 1

Lamentations 1:1The city that once was full of people is now sitting all alone. 1 She has become like a widow, though she was a mighty nation. 1 She was a princess among the nations, but is now forced into slavery. 1

Lamentations 2:9Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken the bars of her gate. 1 Her king and her princes are among the nations, the law is no more 1 and her prophets find no vision from Yahweh. 1

Micah 1:9For her wound is incurable, 1 for it has come to Judah. 1 It has reached the gate of my people, 1 to Jerusalem. 1

Matthew 22:7The king was angry, and he sent his soldiers and they killed 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 →

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