Isaiah 24:10
What does Isaiah 24:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 24:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862It was broken down--a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 25:9
And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
- Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
- Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
- Jeremiah 52:7
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and they went toward the Arabah.
- Micah 2:13
The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Jehovah at the head of them.
- Genesis 11:9
Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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