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Isaiah 24:12

The city is laid waste. The gate is broken to pieces.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Thompson Chain Reference - Desolation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ate;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Demonology;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Only desolation remains in the city;its gate has collapsed in ruins.
Hebrew Names Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
English Standard Version
Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.
New American Standard Bible
Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins.
New Century Version
The city will be left in ruins, and its gates will be smashed to pieces.
Amplified Bible
Horrible desolation is left in the city, And the gate is battered into ruins.
World English Bible
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Legacy Standard Bible
Desolation remains in the city,And the gate is struck down to ruins.
Berean Standard Bible
The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
Contemporary English Version
Cities are destroyed; their gates are torn down.
Complete Jewish Bible
In the city, only desolation, its gates are battered beyond repair.
Darby Translation
desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin.
Easy-to-Read Version
All that is left is destruction. Even the gates are crushed.
George Lamsa Translation
The city is left in desolation, and its gates are broken with destruction.
Good News Translation
The city is in ruins, and its gates have been broken down.
Lexham English Bible
Desolation is left in the city; the gate is crushed into a state of ruin.
Literal Translation
Desolation is remaining in the city, and a ruin; the gate is battered.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Desolacion shal remayne in the cities, and the gates shalbe smytten with waistnesse.
American Standard Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Bible in Basic English
In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten unto ruin.
King James Version (1611)
In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the citie is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.
English Revised Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Desolacioun is left in the citee, and wretchidnesse schal oppresse the yatis.
Update Bible Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
New English Translation
The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.
New King James Version
In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction.
New Living Translation
The city is left in ruins, its gates battered down.
New Revised Standard
Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There is left in the city. desolation, - And to ruins, have been broken the gate.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.
Revised Standard Version
Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins.
Young's Literal Translation
Left in the city [is] desolation, And [with] wasting is the gate smitten.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins.

Contextual Overview

1 See, the Lord will lay the earth waste. He will destroy it, turn its ground up-side-down, and send its people everywhere. 2 What happens to the people will happen to the religious leader. What happens to the man servant will happen to his owner. The woman servant will be like her owner. The buyer will be like the seller. The giver will be like the receiver. The one who lets another use his money will be like the one who uses it. 3 All the earth will be laid waste and destroyed, for the Lord has said this. 4 The earth cries in sorrow and wastes away. The world becomes weak with sorrow and wastes away, together with the honored people of the earth. 5 The earth has been made unclean by its people. They have sinned and not obeyed the laws, and have broken the agreement that was to be forever. 6 So the earth is cursed and those who live in it suffer for their guilt. So the people of the earth are burned, and few men are left. 7 The new wine dries up and the vine wastes away. All the glad in heart are in sorrow. 8 The happiness of the music-makers stops. The noise of those filled with joy stops. The happiness of the harp stops. 9 They do not drink wine with singing. Strong drink tastes bad to those who drink it. 10 The city of trouble is broken down. Every house is shut up so no one may go in.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 32:14, Jeremiah 9:11, Lamentations 1:1, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 2:9, Lamentations 5:18, Micah 1:9, Micah 1:12, Matthew 22:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 9:19 - is the land Isaiah 24:10 - city Jeremiah 4:27 - yet Jeremiah 34:22 - and I will Jeremiah 44:2 - a desolation Ezekiel 12:20 - General Amos 5:18 - the day of the Lord is

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a special dream, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your safe place. Your reward will be very great."
Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, Who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, spoke to me and promised me. He said, ‘I will give this land to your children and to their children's children.' He will send His angel in front of you. And you will take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24:8
But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this promise to me. Only do not take my son there."
Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left. He took with him all kinds of gifts from Abraham. Then he went to the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia.
Genesis 24:11
He made the camels get down on their knees outside the city by the well of water in the evening. It was the time when women go out to get water.
Genesis 24:16
The girl was very beautiful and had never lain with a man. She went down to the well, filled her jar and came up.
Genesis 24:17
Then the servant ran to meet her. He said, "Let me drink a little water from your jar."
Genesis 24:27
He said, "Honor and thanks be to the Lord, the God of my boss Abraham. He has not kept His loving-kindness and His truth from my boss. He has led me in the way to the house of my boss's brothers."
Genesis 24:42
"So I came to the well today. I said, ‘O Lord, the God of my boss Abraham, may all go well during my visit here.
Genesis 24:48
Then I bowed low and worshiped the Lord. I gave honor and thanks to the Lord, the God of my boss Abraham. For He had led me in the right way to take the daughter of my boss's brother for his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the city is left desolation,.... And nothing else, palaces, houses, and temples burnt, and inhabitants destroyed; none but devils, foul spirits, and hateful and unclean birds, inhabiting it,

Revelation 18:2:

and the gate is smitten with destruction; or "gates", the singular for the plural; none passing and repassing through them, as formerly, and themselves utterly destroyed. This, according to Kimchi, shall be in the days of the Messiah, in the times of Gog and Magog.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the gate is smitten with destruction - The word rendered ‘destruction’ may denote ‘a crash’ (Gesenius). The idea is, that the gates of the city, once so secure, are how battered down and demolished, so that the enemy ran enter freely. Thus far is a description of the calamities that would come upon the nation. The following verses show that, though the desolation would be general, a few of the inhabitants would be left - circumstance thrown in to mitigate the prospect. of the impending ruin.


 
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