Isaiah 24:11

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Behold, the LORD lays waste to the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants- ²people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. ³The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word. ⁴The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away. ⁵The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth's dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive. ⁷The new wine dries up; the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. ⁸The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. ⁹They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. ¹⁰The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

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 I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

Genesis 24:14
Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who responds, 'Drink, and I will water your camels as well'-let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master."

Genesis 24:20
And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

1 Samuel 9:11
And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, "Is the seer here?"

Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.

John 4:7
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Give Me a 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.