The King James Version Bible

Isaiah 24:12

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Cross References

  1. Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
  2. And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
  3. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
  4. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
  5. Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
  6. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
  7. For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
  8. For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  9. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.