Isaiah 24:11-12

¹¹People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever--no more joy for this old world.

¹²The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 24 opens the so-called “Isaiah Apocalypse” (chapters 24–27), a sweeping vision of divine judgment that extends beyond Israel to the whole earth. The chapter depicts a world laid waste because of humanity’s rebellion, yet it also holds out a remnant of hope. The earth itself m