Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.”
Isaiah 24:12 - Revised Standard Version Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In the city is left desolation, and its gate is battered and destroyed. American Standard Version (1901) In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Common English Bible Ruin remains in the city, and the gate is battered to wreckage. Catholic Public Domain Version Solitude is what remains in the city, and calamity will overwhelm its gates. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Desolation is left in the city and calamity shall oppress the gates. |
Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.”
For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
And the forest will utterly go down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
“I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron,
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal.
The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the appointed feasts; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her maidens have been dragged away, and she herself suffers bitterly.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets obtain no vision from the Lord.
For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.
For her wound is incurable; and it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.
The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.