Isaiah 24:12

Good News Translation

The city is in ruins, and its gates have been broken down.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:31

Howl and cry for help, all you Philistine cities! Be terrified, all of you! A cloud of dust is coming from the north—it is an army with no cowards in its ranks.

Isaiah 32:14

Even the palace will be abandoned and the capital city totally deserted. Homes and the forts that guarded them will be in ruins forever. Wild donkeys will roam there, and sheep will find pasture there.

Isaiah 32:19

(But hail will fall on the forests, and the city will be torn down.)

Isaiah 45:2

“I myself will prepare your way, leveling mountains and hills. I will break down bronze gates and smash their iron bars.

Jeremiah 9:11

The Lord says, “I will make Jerusalem a pile of ruins, a place where jackals live; the cities of Judah will become a desert, a place where no one lives.”

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely lies Jerusalem, once so full of people! Once honored by the world, she is now like a widow; The noblest of cities has fallen into slavery.

Lamentations 1:4

No one comes to the Temple now to worship on the holy days. The young women who sang there suffer, and the priests can only groan. The city gates stand empty, and Zion is in agony.

Lamentations 2:9

The gates lie buried in rubble, their bars smashed to pieces. The king and the noblemen now are in exile. The Law is no longer taught, and the prophets have no visions from the Lord.

Lamentations 5:18

because Mount Zion lies lonely and deserted, and wild jackals prowl through its ruins.

Micah 1:12

The people of Maroth anxiously wait for relief, because the Lord has brought disaster close to Jerusalem.

Micah 1:9

Samaria's wounds cannot be healed, and Judah is about to suffer in the same way; destruction has reached the gates of Jerusalem itself, where my people live.”

Matthew 22:7

The king was very angry; so he sent his soldiers, who killed those murderers and burned down their city.