Isaiah 24:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.”
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“In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.”
King James Version · Public Domain“There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A cry over the wine <FI>is<Fi> in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 24:11 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 31:6Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
- Isaiah 9:19By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
- Isaiah 16:10Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
- Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Isaiah 32:10In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
- Isaiah 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 48:33Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
- Lamentations 5:14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
- Hosea 7:14They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
- Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
- Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Amos 5:16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
- Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
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