Isaiah 24:12
What does Isaiah 24:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 24:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
KJV
King James Version · 1611In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Left in the city <FI>is<Fi> desolation, And <FI>with<Fi> wasting is the gate smitten.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, — a ruin.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 32:14
For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
- Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!
- Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
- Micah 1:9
For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.
- Lamentations 5:18
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
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