Isaiah 24:10
The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
In Context
9They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it.
11There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away.
Cross References
Genesis 11:9Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lord did there confounde the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them vpon all the earth.
2 Kings 25:9And burnt the house of the Lord, and the Kings house, and all the houses of Ierusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.
Isaiah 24:12In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah 26:5For hee will bring downe them that dwell on hie: the hie citie he will abase: euen vnto the ground wil he cast it downe, and bring it vnto dust.
Isaiah 32:14Because the palace shalbe forsaken, and the noise of the citie shalbe left: the towre and fortresse shalbe dennes for euer, and the delite of wilde asses, and a pasture for flockes,
Isaiah 34:13And it shall bring foorth thornes in the palaces thereof, nettles and thistles in the strong holdes thereof, and it shall be an habitation for dragons, and a court for ostriches.
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 →