The city is left in ruins, its gates battered down.
Parallel translations
- WEB The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
- KJV In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten 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.
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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 32:14For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
- Lam 5:18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
- Lam 1:1How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!
- Mic 1:9For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
- Mic 1:12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
- Jer 9:11“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Lam 1:4The ways of Zion mourn, because no one come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
- Lam 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
- Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
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