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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Isaiah 24:11

There is an outcry concerning wine in the streets, - Darkened is all joy, Departed the gladness of the earth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Colors;   Drunkenness;   Worldliness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dark Days;   Israel;   Israel-The Jews;   Joy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wine;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Pipe;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Complaining;   Isaiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the streets they cry for wine.All joy grows dark;earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
Hebrew Names Version
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
King James Version
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
English Standard Version
There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.
New American Standard Bible
There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The joy of the earth is banished.
New Century Version
People in the streets will ask for wine, but joy will have turned to sadness; all the happiness will have left.
Amplified Bible
There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All jubilation is darkened, The joy of the earth is banished.
World English Bible
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There is a crying for wine in the streetes: al ioy is darkened: the mirth of the world is gone away.
Legacy Standard Bible
There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine;All gladness turns to gloom.The joy of the earth is taken away into exile.
Berean Standard Bible
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
Contemporary English Version
Happy times have disappeared from the earth, and people shout in the streets, "We're out of wine!"
Complete Jewish Bible
In the streets they are crying over the wine; all joy has faded, cheer has left the land.
Darby Translation
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone;
Easy-to-Read Version
People still ask for wine in the marketplaces, but all the joy is gone. It was carried off with everything else.
George Lamsa Translation
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy has ended, the mirth of the land is gone.
Good News Translation
People shout in the streets because there is no more wine. Happiness is gone forever; it has been banished from the land.
Lexham English Bible
there is an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into darkness; the joy of the earth disappears.
Literal Translation
A crying over the wine is in the streets; all joy is darkened; the gladness in the land is exiled.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the stretes shal there be lift vp a crie because of wyne, all mens chere shal vanish awaye, and all ioye of the earth shal passe.
American Standard Version
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Bible in Basic English
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
King James Version (1611)
There is a crying for wine in the streets, all ioy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the streetes is there a crying because of wine, all cheare is vanished away, the myrth of the lande is gone.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.
English Revised Version
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Cry schal be on wyn in streetis, al gladnesse is forsakun, the ioie of erthe is `takun awei.
Update Bible Version
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Webster's Bible Translation
[There] is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
New English Translation
They howl in the streets because of what happened to the wine; all joy turns to sorrow; celebrations disappear from the earth.
New King James Version
There is a cry for wine in the streets, All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone.
New Living Translation
Mobs gather in the streets, crying out for wine. Joy has turned to gloom. Gladness has been banished from the land.
New Life Bible
There is a crying out in the streets about the wine. All joy turns to darkness. The happiness of the earth is gone.
New Revised Standard
There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has reached its eventide; the gladness of the earth is banished.
Douay-Rheims Bible
There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
Revised Standard Version
There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has reached its eventide; the gladness of the earth is banished.
Young's Literal Translation
A cry over the wine [is] in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The gaiety of the earth is banished.

Contextual Overview

1 Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth and laying it waste, - And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein. 2 And it shall be - As the people, so, the priest, As the servant, so his lord, As the maid, so, her mistress, - As the buyer, so, the seller, As the lender, so, the borrower, As the debtor, so! his creditor. 3 Emptied - emptied - shall be the earth yea pillaged - pillaged, - For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word. 4 Mourneth, fadeth, the earth Languisheth, fadeth, the world, - Languished have the lofty of the people of the earth. 5 Yea the earth itself is profaned under them who dwell therein, - For they have Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age-abiding covenant. 6 For this cause, a curse, hath devoured the earth, And punished are the dwellers therein, - For this cause, are burned the inhabitants of the earth, And the men left remaining - are few. 7 Mourneth the new wine. Withereth the vine, - Sighing are all the merryhearted: 8 Ceased hath the mirth of timbrels, Ended is the noise of the uproarious, - Ceased hath the mirth of the lyre: 9 With a song, they drink not wine, - Bitter is strong drink, to them who drink it: 10 Broken down is the city of desolation, - Shut up every house that it cannot be entered.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a crying: Proverbs 31:6, Hosea 7:14, Joel 1:15

all joy: Isaiah 24:7-9, Isaiah 8:22, Isaiah 9:19, Jeremiah 48:33, Lamentations 5:14, Lamentations 5:15, Amos 5:16-20, Matthew 22:11-13, Luke 16:25

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 10:19 - and wine Joel 1:10 - the new Joel 1:12 - joy Amos 5:18 - the day of the Lord is John 2:3 - they wanted

Cross-References

Genesis 24:13
Here am, I, stationed by the fountain of water, - and, the daughters of the men of the city, are coming forth to draw water:
Genesis 24:14
so it shall come to pass that the young woman unto whom I shall say. Let down pray. thy pitcher that I may drink, and she shall say, Drink, and to thy camels also, will I give to drink, that, her! hast thou appointed for thy servant for Isaac, And, hereby, shall I get to know, that thou hast dealt in lovingkindness with my lord!
Genesis 24:20
So she hastened and emptied her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and ran again unto the well, to draw, - and she drew for all his camels.
Exodus 2:16
Now, the priest of Midian, had seven daughters, - and they came and drew and filled the troughs, to water their fathers flock.
1 Samuel 9:11
They were going up the ascent of the city, when they found young women, coming out to draw water, - so they said unto these, Is, the seer, in this place?
Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man, regardeth the desire of his beast, but, the compassions of the lawless, are cruel.
John 4:7
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her - Give me to drink!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[There] is a crying for wine in the streets,.... Not to them that have it, to come and sell it, as Kimchi; but for want of it: there shall be a howling and lamentation in the streets of Rome, during the siege of it, when there will be a famine of bread and of wine, as in Revelation 18:8 by those who used to drink wine, and make glad their hearts; but now shall be without it. This is put for all desirable things, which their souls lusted after; but now will be departed from them, Revelation 18:14:

all joy is darkened: or come to an eventide; the light of joy is turned into the darkness of misery and distress; this will be, when the fifth vial is poured out on the seat of the beast, and his kingdom will be full of darkness; and men will gnaw their tongues for pain, and yet not repent of their sins, but blaspheme the God of heaven,

Revelation 16:10:

the mirth of the land is gone; not Jerusalem, the joy of the whole earth, as Jarchi; but the mirth and joy of the city of Rome;

Revelation 16:10- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is a crying for wine in the streets - The inhabitants of the city, turned from their dwellings, would cry for wine to alleviate their distress, and to sustain them in their calamity (compare Isaiah 16:8-10).

All joy is darkened - Is gone, or has departed, like the joyful light at the setting of the sun.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 24:11. All joy is darkened - "All gladness is passed away"] For ערבה arebah, darkened, read עברה aberah, passed away, transposing a letter. Houbigant, Secker. Five of Dr. Kennicott's and five of De Rossi's MSS., several ancient, add כל col, all, after משוש mesos: the Septuagint adds the same word before it.


 
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