Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Holman Bible
its gate has collapsed in ruins.
International Standard Version
Desolation remains in the city whose gates lie battered into ruins.
A Conservative Version
Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
American Standard Version
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Amplified
Horrible desolation is left in the city,
And the gate is battered into ruins.
Darby Translation
desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, a ruin.
Julia Smith Translation
Desolation was left in the city, and the gate shall be struck in ruins.
King James 2000
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.
Modern King James verseion
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Desolation shall remain in the cities, and the gates shall be smitten with destruction.
NET Bible
The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.
New Heart English Bible
The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
There is left in the city. desolation, - And to ruins, have been broken the gate.
Webster
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
World English Bible
The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
Youngs Literal Translation
Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 24:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Judgment On The Earth
11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone. 12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction. 13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.
Cross References
Isaiah 32:14
For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
Lamentations 1:1
See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Lamentations 2:9
Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
Lamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
Micah 1:9
For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Micah 1:12
For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
Matthew 22:7
But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.