The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
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The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
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In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
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In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten unto ruin.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 24:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 32:14 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
- Jeremiah 9:11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Lamentations 1:1 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!
- Lamentations 1:4 The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
- Lamentations 2:9 Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
- Lamentations 5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.
- Micah 1:9 For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Micah 1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
- Matthew 22:7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and…
Isa 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Ver. 12. In the city is left desolation.] There is nothing of any worth left, but havoc made of all; it is plundered to the life, as now we phrase it. Since the Swedish wars custom is the sole mint master of current words.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The gates of the city are totally ruined, that…
The gates of the city are totally ruined, that the enemy may enter when and where they please.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain In the city is left desolation,.... And nothing else,…
In the city is left desolation,.... And nothing else, palaces, houses, and temples burnt, and inhabitants destroyed; none but devils, foul spirits, and hateful and unclean birds, inhabiting it, Rev 18:2,
and the gate is smitten with destruction; or "gates", the singular for the plural; none passing and repassing through them, as formerly, and themselves utterly destroyed. This, according to Kimchi, shall be in the days of the Messiah, in the times of Gog and Magog.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And the gate is smitten with destruction - The…
And the gate is smitten with destruction - The word rendered ‘destruction’ may denote ‘a crash’ (Gesenius). The idea is, that the gates of the city, once so secure, are how battered down and demolished, so that the enemy ran enter freely. Thus far is a description of the calamities that would come upon the nation. The following verses show that, though the desolation would be general, a few of the inhabitants would be left - circumstance thrown in to mitigate the prospect. of the impending ruin.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain with destruction--rather "crash" [GESENIUS]. "With a great tumult the…
with destruction--rather "crash" [GESENIUS]. "With a great tumult the gate is battered down" [HORSLEY].
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 12. Desolation — Not a trace being left of…
12. Desolation — Not a trace being left of the city as it was.
Gate… destruction — The “gate” is the most noted of all city resorts; its “destruction” is a crash. So Gesenius.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. In the city is left desolation] after its…
12. In the city is left desolation] after its mirth has gone into banishment.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) In the city is left desolation.—Better, of the…
(12) In the city is left desolation.—Better, of the city. Nothing should be left but its crumbling ruins. The “gate,” usually, in an Eastern town, the pride of the city, and the chief place of concourse, had been battered till it lay in ruins.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The gate is smitten with destruction. The very gates…
The gate is smitten with destruction. The very gates of the towns, generally guarded with such care, are broken down and lie in ruins.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Isaiah continues to describe a time in the future when God will judge the earth. Prophets sometimes describe a future event as something in the past or in the present. This emphasizes the event certainly will happen. (See: Predictive Past)
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In the city is left a desolation
The abstract noun "desolation" can be stated as "desolate" or "empty." AT: "The city is desolate" or "The city is left empty" (See: Abstract Nouns)
In the city
This is not a specific city but cities in general. (See: Generic Noun Phrases)
as when an olive tree is beaten, as the gleanings when the grape harvest is done
This compares the nations after Yahweh devastates the land to trees and vines after their fruit has been picked. This means there will be very few people left in the land. (See: Simile)
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