Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
In Context
11There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Lamentations 1:1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary.
Lamentations 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more : her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Micah 1:9For her wound is incurable; for it is come to Judah; he is come to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Matthew 22:7But when the king heard of it , he was wroth: and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up 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 →