Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 24:11

[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

11. a crying for wine ] Rather, as R.V.: a crying because of the wine. The word for streets, meaning strictly “that which is without,” is by some rendered “fields”; but this is less natural.

the mirth of the earth is gone ] Lit. “gone into exile.”

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

There is a crying for wine in the streets – The inhabitants of the city, turned from their dwellings, would cry for wine to alleviate their distress, and to sustain them in their calamity (compare Isa 16:8-10).

All joy is darkened – Is gone, or has departed, like the joyful light at the setting of the sun.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. All joy is darkened – “All gladness is passed away”] For arebah, darkened, read aberah, passed away, transposing a letter. Houbigant, Secker. Five of Dr. Kennicott’s and five of De Rossi’s MSS., several ancient, add col, all, after mesos: the Septuagint adds the same word before it.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

There is a crying for wine; for the want or loss of their wine, and spoil of their vines, whereby they were deprived of the means both of their delight and profit; whereby he intimates their gross sensuality and sottishhess, that instead of crying for their sins, and humbling themselves under Gods judgments, did only howl for their corn, and wine, and oil, as they did, Hos 7:14.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

11. crying for wineto drowntheir sorrows in drink (Isa 16:9);Joe 1:5, written about the sametime, resembles this.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

[There] is a crying for wine in the streets,…. Not to them that have it, to come and sell it, as Kimchi; but for want of it: there shall be a howling and lamentation in the streets of Rome, during the siege of it, when there will be a famine of bread and of wine, as in Re 18:8 by those who used to drink wine, and make glad their hearts; but now shall be without it. This is put for all desirable things, which their souls lusted after; but now will be departed from them, Re 18:14:

all joy is darkened: or come to an eventide; the light of joy is turned into the darkness of misery and distress; this will be, when the fifth vial is poured out on the seat of the beast, and his kingdom will be full of darkness; and men will gnaw their tongues for pain, and yet not repent of their sins, but blaspheme the God of heaven,

Re 16:10:

the mirth of the land is gone; not Jerusalem, the joy of the whole earth, as Jarchi; but the mirth and joy of the city of Rome;

[See comments on Isa 24:8].

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

11. There is a cry about wine. He means, that there will be a scarcity of wine; for where want or hunger is found, it is accompanied by unceasing complaints, not only in private, but “in the streets” and public places. He therefore points out those doleful sounds and complaints, but, at the same time, reproves their luxury and intemperance, because they were not satisfied with what was necessary, but greedily swallowed wine, and abandoned themselves to every kind of enjoyment. We must supply the contrast. “Hitherto you have had abundance of wine and of food, and you have taken occasion from it to grow insolent against God; and therefore you will justly be deprived of them, and, instead of your wanton indulgence, wailing and lamentations will be heard in the streets.”

All joy is darkened. The metaphor in this second clause deserves attention; for, as we say that joy brightens when it obtains its object, so the Prophet here says, that “joy is darkened,” because sorrow may be said to be a cloud drawn over it. To rejoice is not in itself evil, any more than to drink; and the Prophet does not censure joy simply considered, but excessive and immoderate mirth. When men are merry, they lay no restraint on themselves on account of that dissoluteness or love of disorder ( ἀταξίαν) which is natural to them. The Jews, having behaved insolently and lived luxuriously, are deservedly threatened with the vengeance of God, because most justly is joy taken from us when we know not how to make a right use of the Lord’s benefits, or to rejoice in him. It thus becomes necessary that he should take away our pleasures and delights, and compel us to sigh and groan.

Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary

(11) There is a crying for wine in the streets.Literally, because of wine in the fields. The Hebrew noun for the latter word hovers between the meaning of an open place within and one without a city. The context seems in favour of the latter sense. Men weep in the fields because there is no vintage.

All joy is darkened.The English verb exactly expresses the force of the Hebrew, which is used, as in Jdg. 19:9, of the gloom of sunset. (Comp. Mic. 3:6.) The light of joy had passed into the blackness of darkness.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

11. Crying for wine Not to cheer, but to drown thought. Joe 1:5.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isa 24:11 [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

Ver. 11. There is a crying for wine. ] The drunkards weep, the ale stakes yell, because the new wine is cut off from their mouths. Joe 1:5

All joy is darkened. ] Heb., It is eventide with joy. As the air in the evening waxeth dark, so shall their mirth be turned into heaviness.

The mirth of the land is gone. ] Together with their liquor. Wine is by Simonides called the expeller of sadness – A ..

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

a crying: Pro 31:6, Hos 7:14, Joe 1:15

all joy: Isa 24:7-9, Isa 8:22, Isa 9:19, Jer 48:33, Lam 5:14, Lam 5:15, Amo 5:16-20, Mat 22:11-13, Luk 16:25

Reciprocal: Ecc 10:19 – and wine Joe 1:10 – the new Joe 1:12 – joy Amo 5:18 – the day of the Lord is Joh 2:3 – they wanted

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

24:11 [There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the {g} mirth of the land is gone.

(g) Because they did not use God’s benefits correctly their pleasures would fail, and they would fall to mourning.

Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes

Shut up to life without God, humankind despairs because all remedies have been tried and found wanting. Stimulants fail to bring lasting joy, what joy there is sours, and gaiety is gone.

Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)