In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Parallel translations
- WEB The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
- BSB The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
- NKJV In the city desolation is left, And the gate is stricken with destruction.
- NASB Desolation is left in the city And the gate is battered to ruins.
- NLT The city is left in ruins, its gates battered down.
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Quick answer
The city is left desolate and its gate battered into ruin. Its defenses and order are destroyed.
Overview
Desolation fills the city and the gate, symbol of security and government, is shattered. The picture is of total civic collapse. Human strongholds cannot stand when God brings His judgment to bear.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Isa 32:14Because 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;
- Lam 5:18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- Lam 1:1How 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!
- Mic 1:9For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Mic 1:12For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
- Jer 9:11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
- Lam 1:4The 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.
- Lam 2:9Her 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.
- Matt 22:7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
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