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 · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Left in the city <FI>is<Fi> desolation, And <FI>with<Fi> wasting is the gate smitten.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, — a ruin.

Context

v.11There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

v.12This passage

v.13For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

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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