Isaiah 24:12

12 Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.

Isaiah 24:12 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 24:12

In the city is left desolation
And nothing else, palaces, houses, and temples burnt, and inhabitants destroyed; none but devils, foul spirits, and hateful and unclean birds, inhabiting it, ( Revelation 18:2 Revelation 18:8 ) : and the gate is smitten with destruction;
or "gates", the singular for the plural; none passing and repassing through them, as formerly, and themselves utterly destroyed. This, according to Kimchi, shall be in the days of the Messiah, in the times of Gog and Magog.

Isaiah 24:12 In-Context

10 [The] city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut {so that no one can enter};

11 [there is] an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into {darkness}; the joy of the earth disappears.

12 Desolation is left in the city; [the] gate is crushed [into] a state of ruin.

13 For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth, among the nations, like [the] beating of an olive tree, like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end.

14 They lift up their voices; they sing for joy; they shout out from [the] west over the majesty of Yahweh.