Isaiah 24 · Verse 10

Isaiah 24:10

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Isaiah 24:10, King James Version

Isaiah 24:10 in other translations

BSBThe city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
WEBThe confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
ASVThe waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
YLTIt was broken down--a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
DARBYThe city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.
BBEThe town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.
WebsterThe city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.

What does Isaiah 24:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. city of confusion--rather, "desolation." What Jerusalem would be; by anticipation it is called so. Horsley translates, "The city is broken down; it is a ruin." shut up--through fear; or rather, "choked up by ruins."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 24:1-12

The desolation of the land. (Is. 24:1-12) A few shall be preserved. (Is. 24:13-15) God's kingdom advanced by his judgments. (Is. 24:16-23) Verses 1-12 All whose treasures and happiness are laid up on earth, will soon be brought to want and misery. It is good to apply to ourselves what the Scripture says of the vanity and vexation of spirit which attend all things here below. Sin has turned the earth upside down; the…

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Isaiah 24:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נִשְׁבְּרָ֖הnish.be.Rahit has been brokenH7665
קִרְיַת\־kir.yat-[the] town ofH7151
תֹּ֑הוּTo.huformlessnessH8414
סֻגַּ֥רsu.Garit has been shut upH5462
כָּל\־kol-everyH3605
בַּ֖יִתBa.yithouseH1004
מִבּֽוֹא\׃mi.Bo'from enteringH935

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 24:10

  • Revelation 18:2

    And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

  • Revelation 17:5-6

    And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

  • Jeremiah 39:8

    And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

  • Jeremiah 39:4

    And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

  • Isaiah 34:11

    But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

  • Matthew 23:34-35

    Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

  • 2 Kings 25:4

    And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

  • Jeremiah 9:25-26

    Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

  • Revelation 11:7-8

    And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

  • Jeremiah 52:13-14

    And burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

  • Isaiah 25:2

    For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
city.
12; 25:2; 27:10; 32:14; 34:13-15; 2Ki 25:4,9,10; Jer 39:4,8
Jer 52:7,13,14; Mic 2:13; 3:12; Lu 19:43; 21:24
of confusion.
Ge 11:9; Jer 9:25,26; Mt 23:34,35; Re 11:7,8; 17:5,6; 18:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Isaiah 24:9

    They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

  • Isaiah 24:10

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

  • Isaiah 24:11

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

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Isaiah 24:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Quebrantada está la ciudad de la vanidad; toda casa se ha cerrado, porque no entre nadie.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
La cité de désolation est ruinée; toute maison est fermée, de sorte que personne n’y entre.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Zertrümmert ist die Stadt der Öde, verschlossen jedes Haus, so daß niemand hineingeht.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Attrita est civitas vanitatis, clausa est omnis domus, nullo introëunte.