Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
In Context
10The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
12In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:6Giue ye strong drinke vnto him that is readie to perish, and wine vnto them that haue griefe of heart.
Isaiah 9:19By the wrath of the Lord of hostes shall the land be darkened, and the people shall be as the meate of ye fire: no man shall spare his brother.
Isaiah 24:7The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.
Isaiah 32:13Vpon the lande of my people shall growe thornes and briers: yea, vpon all the houses of ioye in the citie of reioysing,
Jeremiah 48:33And ioye, and gladnesse is taken from the plentifull fielde, and from the land of Moab: and I haue caused wine to faile from the winepresse: none shall treade with shouting: their shouting shall be no shouting.
Hosea 7:14And they haue not cryed vnto me with their hearts, when they houled vpon their beds: they assembled themselues for corne, and wine, and they rebell against me.
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 →