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12 The city is left in ruins;[a]
the gate is reduced to rubble.[b]
13 This is what will happen throughout[c] the earth,
among the nations.
It will be like when they beat an olive tree,
and just a few olives are left at the end of the harvest.[d]
14 They[e] lift their voices and shout joyfully;
they praise[f] the majesty of the Lord in the west.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 24:12 tn Heb “and there is left in the city desolation.”
  2. Isaiah 24:12 tn Heb “and [into] rubble the gate is crushed.”
  3. Isaiah 24:13 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).
  4. Isaiah 24:13 sn The judgment will severely reduce the earth’s population. See v. 6.
  5. Isaiah 24:14 sn The remnant of the nations (see v. 13) may be the unspecified subject. If so, then those who have survived the judgment begin to praise God.
  6. Isaiah 24:14 tn Heb “they yell out concerning.”