Isaiah 24:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 32:14 : 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;
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
  • Lam 1:1 : 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 is become tributary!
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
  • Lam 2:9 : 9 Her gates are 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.
  • Lam 5:18 : 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
  • Mic 1:9 : 9 For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

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

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

  • Isa 24:13
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    13 For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

  • Isa 3:26
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    26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • Jer 19:8
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    8 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

  • Isa 24:6-7
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    6 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 left.

    7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

  • Ezek 12:20
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    20 The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

    11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

  • Jer 12:11
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    11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

  • Isa 1:7-8
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    7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

    8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

  • Jer 4:29
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    29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

  • Lam 2:9
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    9 Her gates are 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.

  • Ezek 30:7
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    7 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

  • Isa 24:3-4
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    3 The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

    4 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

  • Job 24:11-12
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    11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

    12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.

  • Isa 14:31
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    31 Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

  • Jer 14:2
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    2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

  • Isa 32:13-14
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    13 Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

    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;

  • Ezek 26:12
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    12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.

  • Jer 4:26
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    26 I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, [and] before his fierce anger.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8 Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

  • Isa 24:1
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    1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

  • Zeph 1:10-11
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    10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

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  • Ezek 7:25
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    25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

  • Zeph 2:15
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    15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

  • Zeph 3:6
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    6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

  • Isa 6:12
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    12 And Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

  • Jer 4:20
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    20 Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, [and] my curtains in a moment.

  • Isa 17:9
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    9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

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    25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?

  • Jer 50:22
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    22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

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    31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • Isa 24:19-20
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    19 The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.

    20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

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    10 The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

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    10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

  • Jer 4:7
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    7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

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    2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

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    19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

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    17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.