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Isaiah 24:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

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Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;

But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.




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