Isaiah 24:12 “The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.”

Isaiah 24:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Left in the city [is] desolation, And [with] wasting is the gate smitten.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

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

Isaiah 32:14 Jeremiah 9:11 Lamentations 1:1 Lamentations 1:4 Lamentations 2:9 Lamentations 5:18

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—

Jeremiah 9:11 · BSB

“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Lamentations 1:1 · BSB

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Lamentations 1:4 · BSB

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

Lamentations 2:9 · BSB

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Lamentations 5:18 · BSB

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

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

In context

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

13So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

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