Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah 24:12 in other translations
| BSB | The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten. |
| DARBY | desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, — a ruin. |
| BBE | In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction. |
| Webster | In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. |
What does Isaiah 24:12 mean?
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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…
Isaiah 24:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 24:12
- 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.
- Lamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- 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;
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.
- Matthew 22:7
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
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Context
- Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
- Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
- Isaiah 24:13
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.
Isaiah 24:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En la ciudad quedó soledad, y con asolamiento fué herida la puerta. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | la désolation reste dans la ville, et la porte est brisée, – une ruine. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Von der Stadt ist nur eine Wüste übriggeblieben, und in Trümmer zerschlagen ward das Tor. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Relicta est in urbe solitudo, et calamitas opprimet portas. |