Wail, you gates! Cry out, city! Tremble with fear, all Philistia! For a cloud of dust is coming from the north, and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.
Isaiah 24:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Wail, you gates! Cry out, city! Tremble with fear, all Philistia! For a cloud of dust is coming from the north, and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.
For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,
But hail will level the forest, , and the city will sink into the depths.
‘I will go before you and level the uneven places; , I will shatter the bronze doors and cut the iron bars in two.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
How she sits alone, the city once crowded with people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has been put to forced labour.
The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.
Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground; he has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates. Her king and her leaders live among the nations, instruction is no more, and even her prophets receive no vision from the Lord.
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it.
Though the residents of Maroth anxiously wait for something good, disaster has come from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.
For her wound is incurable and has reached even Judah; it has approached my people’s city gate, as far as Jerusalem.
The king was enraged, and he sent out his troops, killed those murderers, and burned down their city.