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God’s Judgment on the Earth

Isaiah 24:10

In 11 translations

BSB
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
KJV
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
WEB
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
ASV
The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
LSV
It was broken down—a city of emptiness, || Every house has been shut from [its] entrance.
YLT
It was broken down — a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.
DBY
The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.
DRC
The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.
GNV
The citie of vanitie is broken downe: euery house is shut vp, that no man may come in.
JPS
Broken down is the city of wasteness; every house is shut up, that none may come in.
LXXE
All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה קִרְיַת־תֹּ֑הוּ סֻגַּ֥ר כָּל־בַּ֖יִת מִבּֽוֹא׃
LXX-Br
Ἠρημώθη πᾶσα πόλις, κλείσει οἰκίαν τοῦ μὴ εἰσελθεῖν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 18:2And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
  • Revelation 17:5–6And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for…
  • Isaiah 24:12The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
  • 2 Kings 25:9–10He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around…
  • Jeremiah 52:7Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
  • Isaiah 23:1This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
  • Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
  • Isaiah 25:2Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
  • Isaiah 34:13–15Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches. The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to…
  • Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
  • Jeremiah 52:13–14He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around…
  • Micah 2:13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.
  • Jeremiah 39:8The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Revelation 11:7–8When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively…
  • Matthew 23:34–35Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. And so upon you will come all…
  • Genesis 11:9That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

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