Yeshayah 24:12

12 In the Ir is left desolation, and the sha’ar is stricken with ruination.

Yeshayah 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.

Yeshayah 24:12 In-Context

10 The city of tohu is broken; every bais is shut up, that no man may come in.

11 There is a crying for yayin in the streets; all simchah is darkened, the mirth of HaAretz is banished.

12 In the Ir is left desolation, and the sha’ar is stricken with ruination.

13 When thus it shall be in the midst of HaAretz among the nations, there shall be as the shaking of a zayit (olive tree), and as the olelot (gleanings) when the grape harvest is done.

14 They shall lift up their kol (voice), they shall sing for the Ga’on (Glory) of Hashem, they shall shout from the yam.