Isaiah 24:10 “The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.”

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Geneva Bible 1599

The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.

Darby Translation

The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.

Young's Literal Translation

It was broken down — a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

Bible in Basic English

The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.

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Cross references

“city”

Isaiah 24:12 Isaiah 25:2 Isaiah 27:10 Isaiah 32:14 Isaiah 34:13–15 2 Kings 25:4

Isaiah 24:12 · BSB

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Isaiah 25:2 · BSB

Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 27:10 · BSB

For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

Isaiah 32:14 · BSB

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Isaiah 34:13–15 · BSB

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

2 Kings 25:4 · BSB

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

“of confusion”

Revelation 18:2 Genesis 11:9 Jeremiah 9:25 Jeremiah 9:26 Matthew 23:34 Matthew 23:35

Revelation 18:2 · BSB

And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

Genesis 11:9 · BSB

That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

Jeremiah 9:25 · BSB

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—

Jeremiah 9:26 · BSB

Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”

Matthew 23:34 · BSB

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

Matthew 23:35 · BSB

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Also

Isaiah 34:11 Isaiah 23:1

Isaiah 34:11 · BSB

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

Isaiah 23:1 · BSB

This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

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