Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The city is left in ruins, its gate is battered to pieces. New Living Translation The city is left in ruins, its gates battered down. English Standard Version Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins. Berean Standard Bible The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble. King James Bible In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. New King James Version In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction. New American Standard Bible Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins. NASB 1995 Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins. NASB 1977 Desolation is left in the city, And the gate is battered to ruins. Legacy Standard Bible Desolation remains in the city, And the gate is struck down to ruins. Amplified Bible Horrible desolation is left in the city, And the gate is battered into ruins. Christian Standard Bible Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins. Holman Christian Standard Bible Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins. American Standard Version In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Contemporary English Version Cities are destroyed; their gates are torn down. English Revised Version In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. GOD'S WORD® Translation The city is left in ruins. Its gate is battered to pieces. Good News Translation The city is in ruins, and its gates have been broken down. International Standard Version Desolation remains in the city whose gates lie battered into ruins. Majority Standard Bible The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble. NET Bible The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble. New Heart English Bible The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionDesolation [is] left in the city, "" And the gate is struck [with] ruin. Young's Literal Translation Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten. Smith's Literal Translation Desolation was left in the city, and the gate shall be struck in ruins. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleDesolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates. Catholic Public Domain Version Solitude is what remains in the city, and calamity will overwhelm its gates. New American Bible In the city nothing remains but desolation, gates battered into ruins. New Revised Standard Version Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe city is left in desolation, and its gates are broken with destruction. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And destruction remained in the city, and misery will cut off its gates! OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917In the city is left desolation, And the gate is smitten unto ruin. Brenton Septuagint Translation And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Judgment on the Earth…11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. 12The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble. 13So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.… Cross References Jeremiah 4:7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited. Lamentations 1:1 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. Ezekiel 7:19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity. Zephaniah 1:15 That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, Joel 1:10 The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. Amos 5:3 This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.” Micah 7:13 Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds. Revelation 18:19 Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.” Matthew 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. Luke 21:20 But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. Jeremiah 9:11 “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.” Ezekiel 33:28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through. Zechariah 7:14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.” Revelation 16:19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath. Isaiah 6:11 Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged, Treasury of Scripture In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Isaiah 32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Lamentations 1:1,4 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! … Jump to Previous Battered City Desolation Destruction Gate Gates Pieces Public Ruin Ruins Smitten Struck Waste WastingJump to Next Battered City Desolation Destruction Gate Gates Pieces Public Ruin Ruins Smitten Struck Waste WastingIsaiah 24 1. The doleful judgments of God upon the land13. A remnant shall joyfully praise him 16. God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom The city In the context of Isaiah 24, "the city" represents more than just a physical location; it symbolizes human civilization and society that has turned away from God. The Hebrew word for city, "עִיר" (ʿîr), often denotes a place of human habitation and governance. Historically, cities were centers of power, culture, and commerce. In a spiritual sense, this phrase can be seen as a metaphor for the collective human condition when it is devoid of divine guidance and righteousness. The city, once bustling with life and activity, now stands as a testament to the consequences of sin and rebellion against God. is left in ruins its gate is reduced to rubble Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The cityבָּעִ֖יר (bā·‘îr) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement is left נִשְׁאַ֥ר (niš·’ar) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7604: To swell up, be, redundant in ruins; שַׁמָּ֑ה (šam·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8047: Ruin, consternation its gate שָֽׁעַר׃ (šā·‘ar) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8179: An opening, door, gate is reduced יֻכַּת־ (yuk·kaṯ-) Verb - Hofal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3807: To bruise, violently strike to rubble. וּשְׁאִיָּ֖ה (ū·šə·’î·yāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7591: Desolation Links Isaiah 24:12 NIVIsaiah 24:12 NLT Isaiah 24:12 ESV Isaiah 24:12 NASB Isaiah 24:12 KJV Isaiah 24:12 BibleApps.com Isaiah 24:12 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 24:12 Chinese Bible Isaiah 24:12 French Bible Isaiah 24:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 24:12 The city is left in desolation (Isa Isi Is) |