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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Isaiah 24:12

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

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.
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 Life Bible
The city is laid waste. The gate is broken to pieces.
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 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it. 2 It shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the earth do languish. 5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come 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 Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
Genesis 24:7
Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24:8
If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Genesis 24:16
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
Genesis 24:27
He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
Genesis 24:42
I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
Genesis 24:48
I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter 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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