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10 The city of vanity is all-broken (This city of chaos, or of confusion, is a broken city); each house is closed (up), for no man entereth (in).

11 Cry shall be on wine in [the] streets, all gladness is forsaken, the joy of [the] earth is taken away. (A cry for some wine shall be in the streets, all happiness is gone, the joy of the land is taken away.)

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

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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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