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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Isaiah 24:10

The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Worldliness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chaos;   City of Confusion (Chaos);   Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - City of Confusion;   Confusion;   Desert;   Isaiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The city of chaos is shattered;every house is closed to entry.
Hebrew Names Version
The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
King James Version
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
English Standard Version
The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.
New American Standard Bible
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.
New Century Version
The ruined city will be empty, and people will hide behind closed doors.
Amplified Bible
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.
World English Bible
The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
Legacy Standard Bible
The city of chaos is broken down;Every house is shut up so that none may enter.
Berean Standard Bible
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
Contemporary English Version
Towns are crushed and in chaos; houses are locked tight.
Complete Jewish Bible
The city of chaos is shattered, every house closed up; no one can enter.
Darby Translation
The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Total Confusion" is a good name for this city. The city has been destroyed. People cannot enter the houses. The doors are blocked.
George Lamsa Translation
The city is plundered, every wine cellar is shut up, so that no one may come in.
Good News Translation
In the city everything is in chaos, and people lock themselves in their houses for safety.
Lexham English Bible
The city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut so that no one can enter;
Literal Translation
The city of shame is broken down; every house is shut, that no one may enter.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the wicked cities shalbe broken downe, all houses shalbe shut, that no man maye come in.
American Standard Version
The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Bible in Basic English
The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Broken down is the city of wasteness; every house is shut up, that none may come in.
King James Version (1611)
The city of confusion is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The citie of vanitie is broken downe, euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.
English Revised Version
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The citee of vanyte is al to-brokun; ech hous is closid, for no man entrith.
Update Bible Version
The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Webster's Bible Translation
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.
New King James Version
The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.
New Living Translation
The city writhes in chaos; every home is locked to keep out intruders.
New Life Bible
The city of trouble is broken down. Every house is shut up so no one may go in.
New Revised Standard
The city of chaos is broken down, every house is shut up so that no one can enter.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Broken down is the city of desolation, - Shut up every house that it cannot be entered.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.
Revised Standard Version
The city of chaos is broken down, every house is shut up so that none can enter.
Young's Literal Translation
It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

Contextual Overview

1 Look, the Lord is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants. 2 Everyone will suffer—the priest as well as the people, the master as well as the servant, the elegant lady as well as the female attendant, the seller as well as the buyer, the borrower as well as the lender, the creditor as well as the debtor. 3 The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment. 4 The earth dries up and withers, the world shrivels up and withers; the prominent people of the earth fade away. 5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty. 6 So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people. 7 The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan. 8 The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases. 9 They no longer sing and drink wine; the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it. 10 The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

city: Isaiah 24:12, Isaiah 25:2, Isaiah 27:10, Isaiah 32:14, Isaiah 34:13-15, 2 Kings 25:4, 2 Kings 25:9, 2 Kings 25:10, Jeremiah 39:4, Jeremiah 39:8, Jeremiah 52:7, Jeremiah 52:13, Jeremiah 52:14, Micah 2:13, Micah 3:12, Luke 19:43, Luke 21:24

of confusion: Genesis 11:9, Jeremiah 9:25, Jeremiah 9:26, Matthew 23:34, Matthew 23:35, Revelation 11:7, Revelation 11:8, Revelation 17:5, Revelation 17:6, Revelation 18:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:31 - And I will make Isaiah 1:7 - country Daniel 9:2 - the desolations Micah 6:9 - Lord's

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 24:2
Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had, "Put your hand under my thigh
Genesis 24:4
You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:5
The servant asked him, "What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
Genesis 24:6
"Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.
Genesis 24:8
But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!"
Genesis 24:9
So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes.
Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24:22
After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.
Genesis 24:23
"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The city of confusion is broken down,.... Or "of vanity", as the Vulgate Latin version; or of "emptiness" or "desolation"; the word is "tohu", used in Genesis 1:2 this is to be understood not of Bethel, where one of Jeroboam's calves was, called Bethaven, or "the house of vanity"; nor Samaria, the chief city of the ten tribes; nor Jerusalem; but mystical Babylon, whose name signifies "confusion"; even the city of Rome, in which there is nothing but disorder and irregularity, no truth, justice, or religion; a city of vanity, full of superstition and idolatry, and devoted to ruin and desolation; and will be broke to pieces by the judgments of God, which will come upon it in one hour, Revelation 18:8:

every house is shut up, that no man may come in: or, "from coming in"; not for fear of the enemy, and to keep him out; but because there are no inhabitants in them, being all destroyed by one means or another, by fire or sword, or famine or pestilence, so that there is none to go in or out.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The city of confusion - That Jerusalem is here intended there can be no doubt. The name ‘city of confusion.’ is probably given to it by anticipation of what it would be; that is, as it appeared in prophetic vision to Isaiah (see the note at Isaiah 1:1). He gave to it a name that would describe its state when these calamities should have come upon it. The word rendered ‘confusion’ (תהו tôhû) does not denote disorder or anarchy, but is a word expressive of emptiness, vanity, destitution of form, waste. It occurs Genesis 1:2 : ‘And the earth was without form.’ In Job 26:7, it is rendered ‘the empty place;’ in 1 Samuel 12:21; Isaiah 45:18-19, ‘in vain;’ and usually ‘emptiness,’ ‘vanity’, ‘confusion’ (see Isaiah 24:10; Isaiah 40:17; Isaiah 41:29). In Job 12:24; Psalms 107:40, it denotes a wilderness. Here it means that the city would be desolate, empty, and depopulated.

Is broken down - Its walls and dwellings are in ruins.

Every house is shut up - That is, either because every man, fearful of danger, would fasten his doors so that enemies could not enter; or more probably, the entrance to every house would be so obstructed by ruins as to render it impossible to enter it.


 
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