Isaiah 24:10
New International Version
The ruined city lies desolate; the entrance to every house is barred.

New Living Translation
The city writhes in chaos; every home is locked to keep out intruders.

English Standard Version
The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.

Berean Standard Bible
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

King James Bible
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

New King James Version
The city of confusion is broken down; Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.

New American Standard Bible
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

NASB 1995
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

NASB 1977
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

Legacy Standard Bible
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

Amplified Bible
The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

Christian Standard Bible
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

American Standard Version
The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The city is plundered and every house with wine cellars is captured

Brenton Septuagint Translation
All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

Contemporary English Version
Towns are crushed and in chaos; houses are locked tight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in.

English Revised Version
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The ruined city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is barred shut.

Good News Translation
In the city everything is in chaos, and people lock themselves in their houses for safety.

International Standard Version
The chaotic city lies broken down; every house is closed up so that no one can enter them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Broken down is the city of wasteness; Every house is shut up, that none may come in.

Literal Standard Version
It was broken down—a city of emptiness, | Every house has been shut from [its] entrance.

Majority Standard Bible
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

New American Bible
Broken down is the city of chaos, every house is shut against entry.

NET Bible
The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.

New Revised Standard Version
The city of chaos is broken down, every house is shut up so that no one can enter.

New Heart English Bible
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Webster's Bible Translation
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may enter.

World English Bible
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Young's Literal Translation
It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

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Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
9They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. 10The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry. 11In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.…

Cross References
Isaiah 23:1
This 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 32:14
For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever--the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks--

Isaiah 32:19
But hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.

Isaiah 34:11
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.


Treasury of Scripture

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

city

Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Isaiah 25:2
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

Isaiah 27:10
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

of confusion

Genesis 11:9
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Jeremiah 9:25,26
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; …

Matthew 23:34,35
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: …

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Isaiah 24
1. The doleful judgments of God upon the land
13. A remnant shall joyfully praise him
16. God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom














(10) The city of confusion.--Better, the city of chaos, the tohu of Genesis 1:2, "without form and void." The world should be cast back out of its cosmos into its primeval chaos. The word is a favourite one with Isaiah (Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 59:4, and nine other passages).

Every house is shut up--i.e., to complete the picture, not because its gates are barred, but because its own ruins block up the entrance.

Verse 10. - The city of confusion is broken down. No special city seems to be intended. "Est urbis nomen collective capiendum" (Rosenmüller). Chaos (tohu) reigns in the cities, where there is no civic life, no government, no order, nothing but confusion. Every house is shut up; bolted and barred against intruders. There is no confidence, no friendly intercourse, no visiting.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The city
קִרְיַת־ (qir·yaṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7151: A town, city

of chaos
תֹּ֑הוּ (tō·hū)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8414: A desolation, desert, a worthless thing, in vain

is shattered;
נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה (niš·bə·rāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

every
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

house
בַּ֖יִת (ba·yiṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

is closed
סֻגַּ֥ר (sug·gar)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5462: To shut up, to surrender

to entry.
מִבּֽוֹא׃ (mib·bō·w)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go


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