Isaiah 24:8
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New International Version (©2011)
The joyful timbrels are stilled, the noise of the revelers has stopped, the joyful harp is silent.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The cheerful sound of tambourines is stilled; the happy cries of celebration are heard no more. The melodious chords of the harp are silent.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The gaiety of tambourines ceases, The noise of revelers stops, The gaiety of the harp ceases.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The joyful tambourines have ceased. The noise of the jubilant has stopped. The joyful lyre has ceased.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"The celebrations of the tambourine have ended, the noise of the jubilant has stopped, and the mirth that the harp produces has ended.

NET Bible (©2006)
The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joyful tambourine music stops. Noisy celebrations cease. Joyful harp music stops.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The mirth of timbrels ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

American King James Version
The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

American Standard Version
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.

Darby Bible Translation
the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

English Revised Version
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

Webster's Bible Translation
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

World English Bible
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

Young's Literal Translation
Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:1-12 All whose treasures and happiness are laid up on earth, will soon be brought to want and misery. It is good to apply to ourselves what the Scripture says of the vanity and vexation of spirit which attend all things here below. Sin has turned the earth upside down; the earth is become quite different to man, from what it was when God first made it to be his habitation. It is, at the best, like a flower, which withers in the hands of those that please themselves with it, and lay it in their bosoms. The world we live in is a world of disappointment, a vale of tears; the children of men in it are but of few days, and full of trouble, See the power of God's curse, how it makes all empty, and lays waste all ranks and conditions. Sin brings these calamities upon the earth; it is polluted by the sins of men, therefore it is made desolate by God's judgments. Carnal joy will soon be at end, and the end of it is heaviness. God has many ways to imbitter wine and strong drink to those who love them; distemper of body, anguish of mind, and the ruin of the estate, will make strong drink bitter, and the delights of sense tasteless. Let men learn to mourn for sin, and rejoice in God; then no man, no event, can take their joy from them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 8. - The mirth of tabrets... of the harp ceaseth (comp. Isaiah 5:12). The feasting, and the drinking-songs, and the musical accompaniment, common at the vintage season, are discontinued. All is dismay and wretchedness - desolation in the present, worse desolation expected in the future.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,.... Or of drums, and such like musical instruments, used at junketings and jovial feasts. So when Babylon is fallen, the voice of harpers and musicians, and of pipers and trumpeters, shall be heard no more therein, Revelation 18:22,

the noise of them that rejoice endeth; the tumultuous noise of revelling persons at feasts and banquets, at marriages, and such like seasons; and so it is said, that when Babylon is destroyed, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all therein, or the joy expressed on such occasions by their friends and companions, Revelation 18:23,

the joy of the harp ceaseth; an instrument of music used on joyful occasions; the voice of harpers is particularly mentioned in Revelation 18:22.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. (Re 18:22).

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God's Judgment on the Earth
…7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh. 8The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. …

Revelation 18:22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No worker of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.
Job 30:31 My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.
Psalm 137:2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,
Isaiah 5:12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.
Isaiah 16:10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards; no one treads out wine at the presses, for I have put an end to the shouting.
Jeremiah 7:34 I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.
Jeremiah 25:10 I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.
Lamentations 5:14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Ezekiel 26:13 I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.
Ezekiel 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.
Hosea 2:11 I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days--all her appointed festivals.