Isaiah 24:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.”
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BSBPD
“The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Left in the city <FI>is<Fi> desolation, And <FI>with<Fi> wasting is the gate smitten.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Isaiah 24:12 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 32:14For 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“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 1:1How 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 1:4The 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 2:9Her 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 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
- Micah 1:9For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
- Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
- Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
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