Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
12. In the city is left desolation ] after its mirth has gone into banishment.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And the gate is smitten with destruction – The word rendered destruction may denote a crash (Gesenius). The idea is, that the gates of the city, once so secure, are how battered down and demolished, so that the enemy ran enter freely. Thus far is a description of the calamities that would come upon the nation. The following verses show that, though the desolation would be general, a few of the inhabitants would be left – circumstance thrown in to mitigate the prospect. of the impending ruin.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The gates of the city are totally ruined, that the enemy may enter when and where they please.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
12. with destructionrather”crash” [GESENIUS].”With a great tumult the gate is battered down” [HORSLEY].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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,
Re 18:2:
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
12. In the city is left desolation. By an elegant mode of expression he describes the desolation of Jerusalem or of many other cities. The ornament and perfection of cities consists of men; and therefore, when their inhabitants have been removed, cities are said to be deserted. The Prophet says ironically, that “ruin” will be left; but the word שמה ( shămmăh) is rendered by others desolation, which amounts to the same thing.
And the gate is smitten with desolation. He mentions the gates, because in them the crowded population of the city was seen, for there the people assembled, and there the courts of justice were held. At first, therefore, he mentions the whole city, and next he names one part of it, but for the purpose of setting the matter in a stronger light; for although cities be deprived of their inhabitants, yet some are to be seen in the gates; but if the gates be altogether empty, there must be grievous solitude in the whole city.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(12) In the city is left desolation.Better, of the city. Nothing should be left but its crumbling ruins. The gate, usually, in an Eastern town, the pride of the city, and the chief place of concourse, had been battered till it lay in ruins.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
12. Desolation Not a trace being left of the city as it was.
Gate destruction The “gate” is the most noted of all city resorts; its “destruction” is a crash. So Gesenius.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Isa 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Ver. 12. In the city is left desolation. ] There is nothing of any worth left, but havoc made of all; it is plundered to the life, as now we phrase it. Since the Swedish wars custom is the sole mint master of current words.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
desolation = astonishment. Hebrew. shamen. Compare Isa 24:6, Isa 24:10, Isa 24:23.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Isa 32:14, Jer 9:11, Lam 1:1, Lam 1:4, Lam 2:9, Lam 5:18, Mic 1:9, Mic 1:12, Mat 22:7
Reciprocal: Isa 5:6 – I will lay Isa 9:19 – is the land Isa 24:10 – city Jer 4:27 – yet Jer 34:22 – and I will Jer 44:2 – a desolation Eze 12:20 – General Amo 5:18 – the day of the Lord is
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Life in the city (world) of meaninglessness is not only unsatisfying (Isa 24:7), but it is also impossible. Not only is life desolate but it is also defenseless.