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James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 24:7

"The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in. There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. In the city is left desolation, and the gate is... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 24:7-9

Isaiah 24:7-9. The new wine mourneth— In this fifth gradation we have a fine and pathetic description of a once flourishing land, entirely ruined and desolated by a destructive enemy. There is no difficulty in the words, nor in the fact, which is most notorious from history; for at this period, says the author of the book of Maccabees, there was so great mourning in Israel, that even every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage-chamber was in heaviness: Joy was taken... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 24:7

7. mourneth—because there are none to drink it [BARNES]. Rather, "is become vapid" [HORSLEY]. languisheth—because there are none to cultivate it now. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:1-20

The preservation of God’s people within a world under divine judgment 24:1-20Isaiah revealed that the Lord’s people are at the center of His plans for the world (cf. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 21:10). He will preserve them even though He will judge sinful humanity. It is believers who will be living on the earth during the Lord’s devastation of this planet that are in view (Tribulation saints), not Christians living before the Tribulation who will be taken to heaven in the Rapture before the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:7

Wine, which people use to escape feeling the effects of sin, ultimately proves ineffective. Its source, the grapevine, decays (as a result of drought? cf. Revelation 6:5-6), and even the constitutionally lighthearted cannot escape groaning. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:7-20

The effects of the coming judgment 24:7-20Isaiah expounded on the effects of human sin in a poem, which follows. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:1-13

The Coming Judgment and Establishment of Jehovah’s KingdomThe subject is the overthrow of a power hostile to God’s people, with a description of the deliverance of the Jews and their future glory. The hostile power is not named, and the tone of the whole prophecy is so general that it is impossible to assign it to any occasion. With the anticipated overthrow of the enemy the prophet associates in thought Jehovah’s final judgment of the world. Most modern scholars assign this whole section to a... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:1-23

2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused. 5. Defiled] i.e. desecrated by bloodshed (Numbers 35:33). Everlasting covenant] The phrase seems to allude to Genesis 9:16, the covenant with Noah and his sons. The bloodshed, upon which the great world-empires were founded, was a violation of this primitive covenant.7-9. The meaning is that every form of enjoyment has ceased. 10. Confusion] or, ’chaos’ (Genesis 1:2), so called because of the desolation awaiting it. No man, etc.] the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 24:7

(7) The new wine mourneth.—Each feature takes its part in the picture of a land from which all sources of joy are taken away. The vine is scorched with the fire of the curse, there is no wine in the winepress, the song of the grape-gatherers (proverbially the type of the “merry-hearted”) is hushed in silence. read more

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