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Isaiah 24:7-11

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. The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. 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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Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left. 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. The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in. There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    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.

    The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

    There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

  • KJV King James Version

    The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

    The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

    They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

    The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

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

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth; all the merry-hearted do sigh.

    The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

    They drink not wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.

    Broken down is the city of wasteness; every house is shut up, that none may come in.

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

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Cross-references (59)

  • Hosea 2:11 (v8) I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
  • Isaiah 16:10 (vv7, 11) 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…
  • Jeremiah 7:34 (v8) Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the…
  • Ezekiel 26:13 (v8) I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.
  • Revelation 18:2 (v10) He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every…
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  • Revelation 18:22 (v8) The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will…
  • Ecclesiastes 9:7 (v9) Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
  • Isaiah 5:22 (v9) Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
  • Isaiah 16:8 (v7) For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached…
  • Jeremiah 16:9 (v8) For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the…
  • Jeremiah 25:10 (v8) Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the…
  • Hosea 7:14 (v11) 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…
  • Joel 1:10-12 (v7) The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes. Be confounded, you…
  • Revelation 17:5-6 (v10) And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” I…
  • Genesis 11:9 (v10) Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad…
  • 2 Kings 25:4 (v10) Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the…
  • 2 Kings 25:9-10 (v10) He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. All the army of…
  • Psalms 69:12 (v9) Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
  • Proverbs 31:6 (v11) Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.
  • Isaiah 5:11-12 (v9) Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!…
  • Isaiah 5:12 (v8) The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they…
  • Isaiah 5:20 (v9) Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for…
  • Isaiah 8:22 (v11) and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
  • Isaiah 9:19 (v11) 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 23:1 (v10) The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim…
  • Isaiah 23:15-16 (v8) It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy…
  • Isaiah 24:7-9 (v11) The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends.…
  • Isaiah 24:12 (v10) The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
  • Isaiah 25:2 (v10) For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
  • Isaiah 27:10 (v10) For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will…
  • Isaiah 32:9-13 (v7) Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech! For days beyond a year you will be…
  • Isaiah 32:13 (v11) Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
  • Isaiah 32:14 (v10) 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…
  • Isaiah 34:11 (v10) But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it,…
  • Isaiah 34:13-15 (v10) Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.…
  • Jeremiah 9:25-26 (v10) “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: Egypt, Judah, Edom, the…
  • Jeremiah 39:4 (v10) When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the…
  • Jeremiah 39:8 (v10) The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Jeremiah 48:33 (v11) 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…
  • Jeremiah 52:7 (v10) Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two…
  • Jeremiah 52:13-14 (v10) He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. All the army…
  • Lamentations 5:14-15 (v11) 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…
  • Hosea 9:1-2 (v7) Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every…
  • Joel 1:15 (v11) 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 (v11) 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!…
  • Amos 6:5-7 (v9) who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; who drink wine in bowls, and anoint…
  • Amos 8:3 (v9) The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw…
  • Amos 8:10 (v9) I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and…
  • Micah 2:13 (v10) He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh…
  • Micah 3:12 (v10) Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like…
  • Matthew 22:11-13 (v11) 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…
  • Matthew 23:34-35 (v10) Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge…
  • Luke 16:25 (v11) “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here…
  • Luke 19:43 (v10) For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
  • Luke 21:24 (v10) They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles,…
  • Ephesians 5:18-19 (v9) Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual…
  • Revelation 11:7-8 (v10) When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill…
  • Zechariah 9:15 (v9) Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and…

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv10–11 Which as it was without order, so now should…

Which as it was without order, so now should it be brought to desolation and confusion: and this was not only meant of Jerusalem, but of all the other wicked cities.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv7–11 Isa 24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv7–11 The new wine mourneth, because there are either none,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv7–11 The new wine mourneth,.... For want men to drink…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv7–11 Mourneth - Because there are none to drink it.…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv8, 9, 11 Verse 8. The mirth, &c.] שאון sheon, the noise.…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv7, 10 Isa 24:7-9. The new wine mourneth, &c. — In…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv7–11 The new wine languisheth - The new wine (תירושׁ…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv9–10 The drink. Hebrew shecar, "palm wine."
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv7–11 mourneth--because there are none to drink it [BARNES]. Rather,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv7, 10, 11 7-9. New wine mourneth — Isa_5:11. Sensuality is personified…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv7, 8, 10, 11 7. Cf. Joe_1:10; Joe_1:12.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv7–11 (7) The new wine mourneth.—Each feature takes its part…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv7–11 The new wine mourneth. Even when the joyous time…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv8, 10 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv7, 8, 10, 11 24:7 Merrymakers will sigh and mourn because they are…
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