“Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! Melt away, all you of Philistia! For smoke shall come from the north, and there is no stranger in his ranks.”
Isaiah 24:12 - The Scriptures 2009 The city is left in ruins, and the gate is stricken with destruction. 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. |
“Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! Melt away, all you of Philistia! For smoke shall come from the north, and there is no stranger in his ranks.”
for the palace is abandoned, the crowded city deserted. Hill and watchtower serve as caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
even when hail shall fall, felling the forest, and the city be brought low in humiliation.
I go before you and make the crooked places straight; I shatter the gates of bronze and cut down the bars of iron.
“And I shall make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, a habitation for jackals; and the cities of Yehuḏah I shall make a waste, without an inhabitant.”
How she sits, The city once great with people! Like a widow she has become, One great among the nations! A princess among provinces has become a slave!
The ways to Tsiyon mourn For no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are deserted, Her priests sigh, her maidens are afflicted, And she has bitterness.
Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her sovereign and her rulers are among the nations. The Torah is no more, And her prophets have found no vision from יהוה.
Because of Mount Tsiyon which is laid waste; Foxes have gone roaming in it.
Though the inhabitants of Maroth waited for good, yet evil came down from יהוה to the gate of Yerushalayim.
For her wounds are incurable. For it has come to Yehuḏah, it has come to the gate of My people, to Yerushalayim.
“But when the sovereign heard, he was wroth, and sent out his soldiers, destroyed those murderers, and set their city on fire.