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Isaiah 24:12

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Only destruction is left for the city. Even the gates are crushed.

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You people near the city gates, cry!\par You people in the city, cry out!\par All of you people in Philistia\par will be frightened.\par Your courage will melt like hot wax.\par

People will leave the capital city. The palace and towers will be left empty. People will not live in houses—they will live in caves. Wild donkeys and sheep will live in the city—animals will go there to eat grass.

But before these things happen, the forest must fall. That city must be defeated.

“\{Cyrus, your armies will march,\}\par and I will go in front of you.\par I will make the mountains flat.\par I will break the city gates of bronze.\par I will cut the iron bars on the gates.\par

“I (the Lord) will make the city of Jerusalem\par a pile of garbage.\par It will be a home for jackals. {\cf2\super [75]} \par I will destroy the cities in the land of Judah,\par so no one will live there.”\par

Jerusalem once was a city full of people.\par But now the city is so deserted!\par Jerusalem was one of the greatest cities\par in the world.\par But now she {\cf2\super [1]} has become like a widow.\par She was once a princess among cities.\par But now she has been made a slave.\par

The roads to Zion {\cf2\super [2]} are very sad.\par They are sad because no person comes to Zion for the holidays anymore.\par All of Zion’s gates have been destroyed.\par All of Zion’s priests groan.\par Zion’s young women\par have been taken away. {\cf2\super [3]} \par And all of this is a bitter sadness to Zion.\par

Jerusalem’s gates have sunk into the ground.\par He destroyed and smashed the bars\par of the gates.\par Her king and princes are in other nations.\par There is no more teaching for them.\par Also Jerusalem’s prophets have not found\par any visions from the Lord.\par

Mount Zion is a wasteland.\par Foxes run around on Mount Zion.\par

People living in Maroth {\cf2\super [20]} become weak\par waiting for good \{news to come\}.\par Why? Because trouble has come down\par from the Lord to the city gate of Jerusalem.\par

Samaria’s {\cf2\super [13]} wound can’t be healed.\par Her disease (sin) has spread to Judah.\par It has reached the city gate of my people.\par It has spread all the way to Jerusalem.\par

The king was very angry. The king sent his army to kill those people that killed his servants. And the army burned their city.




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