Isaiah 24:12

Contemporary English Version 1995

Cities are destroyed; their gates are torn down.

Cross References

Micah 1:12

Everyone in Maroth hoped for the best, but the Lord sent disaster down on Jerusalem.

Micah 1:9

The nation is fatally wounded. Judah is doomed. Jerusalem will fall.

Lamentations 5:18

our city is in ruins, overrun by wild dogs.

Lamentations 2:9

Zion's gates have fallen facedown on the ground; the bars that locked the gates are smashed to pieces. Her king and royal family are prisoners in foreign lands. Her priests don't teach, and her prophets don't have a message from the Lord.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!

Lamentations 1:1

Jerusalem, once so crowded, lies deserted and lonely. This city that was known all over the world is now like a widow. This queen of the nations has been made a slave.

Jeremiah 9:11

I heard the Lord reply, “When I am finished, Jerusalem and the towns of Judah will be piles of ruins where only jackals live.”

Isaiah 32:14

The palace will be deserted, the crowded city empty. Fortresses and towers will forever become playgrounds for wild donkeys and pastures for sheep.

Matthew 22:7

This made the king so furious that he sent an army to kill those murderers and burn down their city.

Isaiah 14:31

Cry and weep in the gates of your towns, you Philistines! Smoke blows in from the north, and every soldier is ready.

Isaiah 32:19

even if hailstones flatten forests and cities.

Isaiah 45:2

As I lead you, I will level mountains and break the iron bars on bronze gates of cities.