The Meaning of Isaiah 24:10 Explained

Isaiah 24:10

KJV: The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

YLT: It was broken down -- a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

Darby: The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.

ASV: The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Discover Isaiah 24:10

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Isaiah 24:10?

MEANING: What does Isaiah 24:10 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Isaiah 24:10 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Isaiah 24:10?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The city  of confusion  is broken down:  every house  is shut up,  that no man may come in. 

What does Isaiah 24:10 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Isaiah described the world as a city marked by meaninglessness (Heb. tohu, Genesis 1:2), like the earth before Creation (cf. Genesis 11:1-9; Jeremiah 4:23). That the city is the entire earth is clear. The word "earth" occurs16 times in this section of the text ( Isaiah 24:1-20). A spirit of fear pervades this city. Modern existentialist writers have done a good job of articulating the meaninglessness of life without God that Isaiah also described here. [1]

Context Summary

Isaiah 24:1-13 - The Desolation Of A Guilty World
This and the three following chapters form a single prophecy, describing the calamities about to desolate the land, because the inhabitants had transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Primarily it describes the experiences of Palestine under the successive invasions from the Euphrates valley, first of Nineveh and then of Babylon. There is a mysterious connection between the condition of a man's soul and the response of surrounding nature. The very vineyards would sigh in sad accord with the prevailing misery and sin, Isaiah 24:7-9; and in the great city silence would reign in streets decimated by plague and war, Isaiah 24:10-12. Both in the Old and the New Testament the blessings of sufficiency and comfort are the fruits of holy living; whereas, sooner or later, evil overtakes wrong-doing. "Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed," is always true. [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 24

1  The doleful judgments of God upon the land
13  A remnant shall joyfully praise him
16  God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom

What do the individual words in Isaiah 24:10 mean?

Is broken down the city of confusion is shut up every house so that none may go in
נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה קִרְיַת־ תֹּ֑הוּ סֻגַּ֥ר כָּל־ בַּ֖יִת מִבּֽוֹא

נִשְׁבְּרָ֖ה  Is  broken  down 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: שָׁבוּר 
Sense: to break, break in pieces.
קִרְיַת־  the  city 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: קִרְיָה 
Sense: city, town.
תֹּ֑הוּ  of  confusion 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: תֹּהוּ  
Sense: formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness.
סֻגַּ֥ר  is  shut  up 
Parse: Verb, Pual, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: סָגוּר 
Sense: to shut, close.
כָּל־  every 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
בַּ֖יִת  house 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
מִבּֽוֹא  so  that  none  may  go  in 
Parse: Preposition-m, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.

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