There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
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There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.
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There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
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There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Cross-references (13)
Passages linked to Isaiah 24:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hosea 7:14 They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
- Proverbs 31:6 Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.
- Isaiah 8:22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
- Isaiah 9:19 Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
- Isaiah 16:10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
- Isaiah 24:7-9 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases. They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
- Isaiah 32:13 Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
- Jeremiah 48:33 Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.
- Lamentations 5:14-15 The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music. The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
- Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Amos 5:16-20 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways; and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and they will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing. In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh. “Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light. As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Matthew 22:11-13 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’
- Luke 16:25 “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Because they did not use God’s benefits aright, their…
Because they did not use God’s benefits aright, their pleasures should fail, and they fall to mourning.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 24:11 [There is] a crying for wine in…
Isa 24:11 [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
Ver. 11. There is a crying for wine.] The drunkards weep, the ale stakes yell, because the new wine is cut off from their mouths. {Joe 1:5}
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All joy is darkened.] Heb., It is eventide with joy. As the air in the evening waxeth dark, so shall their mirth be turned into heaviness.
The mirth of the land is gone.] Together with their liquor. Wine is by Simonides called the expeller of sadness - Aμυντωρ δυσφροσυναων..
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain There is a crying for wine; for the want…
There is a crying for wine; for the want or loss of their wine, and spoil of their vines, whereby they were deprived of the means both of their delight and profit; whereby he intimates their gross sensuality and sottishhess, that instead of crying for their sins, and humbling themselves under God’s judgments, did only howl for their corn, and wine, and oil, as they did, Hos 7:14.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain There is a crying for wine in the streets,....…
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 Rev 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, Rev 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, Rev 16:10,
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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; See Gill on Isa 24:8.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A crying - Such was their gross sensuality and…
A crying - Such was their gross sensuality and sottishness, that instead of crying for their sins, they did only howl for their corn, and wine, and oil, Hosea vii, 14.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. All joy is darkened - "All gladness…
Verse 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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain There is a crying for wine in the streets…
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 Isa 16:8-10).
All joy is darkened - Is gone, or has departed, like the joyful light at the setting of the sun.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain crying for wine--to drown their sorrows in drink (Isa…
crying for wine--to drown their sorrows in drink (Isa 16:9); Joe 1:5, written about the same time, resembles this.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Crying for wine — Not to cheer, but…
11. Crying for wine — Not to cheer, but to drown thought. Joe_1:5.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. a crying for wine] Rather, as R.V.: a…
11. a crying for wine] Rather, as R.V.: a crying because of the wine. The word for streets, meaning strictly “that which is without,” is by some rendered “fields”; but this is less natural.
the mirth of the earth is gone] Lit. “gone into exile.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) There is a crying for wine in the…
(11) There is a crying for wine in the streets.—Literally, because of wine in the fields. The Hebrew noun for the latter word hovers between the meaning of an open place within and one without a city. The context seems in favour of the latter sense. Men weep in the fields because there is no vintage.
All joy is darkened.—The English verb exactly expresses the force of the Hebrew, which is used, as in Jdg_19:9, of the gloom of sunset. (Comp. Mic_3:6.) The light of joy had passed into the blackness of darkness.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain There is a crying for wine in the streets.…
There is a crying for wine in the streets. Wine, though still manufactured (see vers. 7, 9) is scarce, but is much sought after. Men clamor for it at the doors of the wine-shops, but are unable to obtain it. They crave for its exhilarating effects, or perhaps for the oblivion which it brings when drunk to excess. If they could obtain it, they would act as the Jews in the siege of Jerusalem. (Isa_22:13) But they cannot. Hence even the factitious merriment, which wine is capable of producing, is denied now to the inhabitants of the earth, with whom all joy is darkened, from whom all mirth is gone.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 24:11 Gladness has been banished from the land, not…
24:11 Gladness has been banished from the land, not by edict, but because there is no reason to celebrate.
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