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.

10 The ruined city(A) lies desolate;(B)
    the entrance to every house is barred.
11 In the streets they cry out(C) for wine;(D)
    all joy turns to gloom,(E)
    all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
12 The city is left in ruins,(F)
    its gate(G) is battered to pieces.

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