Isaiah 24:8
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
In Context
7The wine faileth, the vine hath no might: all that were of merie heart, doe mourne.
9They shall not drinke wine with mirth: strong drinke shall be bitter to them that drinke it.
Cross References
Psalms 137:2Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.
Isaiah 23:15And in that day shall Tyrus bee forgotten seuentie yeeres, (according to the yeeres of one King) at the ende of seuentie yeeres shall Tyrus sing as an harlot.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Beholde, I wil cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, euen in your dayes the voyce of myrth, and the voyce of gladnes, the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride.
Ezekiel 26:13Thus will I cause the sounde of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thine harpes shall be no more heard.
Amos 6:7Therefore nowe shall they go captiue with the first that go captiue, and the sorow of them that stretched themselues, is at hand.
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 →