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Isaiah 24:12

10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

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

13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
KJV
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
WEB
The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
ASV
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
DARBY
desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, a ruin.
BLB
In the city a desolation has been left, and the gate is broken into a ruin.
ÅB
Tilbake i byen er bare ødeleggelse, og porten er slått i stumper og stykker.
OTB
Ødeleggelse er det som gjenstår i byen, og porten er slått i ruiner.
B1930
Tilbake i byen er bare ødeleggelse, og porten er slått i stumper og stykker.

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 9:11

    And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

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  • Lamentations 5:18

    Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

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  • Isaiah 32:14

    Because 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;

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  • Micah 1:9

    For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

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  • Lamentations 1:1

    How 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!

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  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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  • Lamentations 2:9

    Her 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.

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  • Micah 1:12

    For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

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