Isaiah 24:12
Good News Translation
The city is in ruins, and its gates have been broken down.

New Revised Standard Version
Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins.

Contemporary English Version
Cities are destroyed; their gates are torn down.

New American Bible
In the city nothing remains but desolation, gates battered into ruins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.

Isaiah 32:14 For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.

Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an inhabitant.

Lamentations 1:1,4 Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces made tributary! . . .

Lamentations 2:9 Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.

Lamentations 5:18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.

Micah 1:9,12 Therefore will I lament, and howl: I will go stript and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches. . . .

Matthew 22:7 But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
11There shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away. 12Desolation is left in the city, and calamity shall oppress the gates.13For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.…
Cross References
Isaiah 14:31
Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his troop.

Isaiah 32:14
For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.

Isaiah 32:19
But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city shall be made very low.

Isaiah 45:2
I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron.

Isaiah 24:11
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