10 The city of [a]vanity is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

11 There is a crying for wine in the streets: all joy is darkened: the [b]mirth of the world is gone away.

12 In the cities is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 24:10 Which as it was without order, so now should it be brought to desolation and confusion: and this was not only meant of Jerusalem, but of all the other wicked cities.
  2. Isaiah 24:11 Because they did not use God’s benefits aright, their pleasures should fail, and they fall to mourning.

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