Isaiah 24:7
Good News Translation
The grapevines wither, and wine is becoming scarce. Everyone who was once happy is now sad,

New Revised Standard Version
The wine dries up, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.

Contemporary English Version
Grapevines have dried up: wine is almost gone--mournful sounds are heard instead of joyful shouts.

New American Bible
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted groan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.

Isaiah 16:8,10 For the suburbs of Hesebon are desolate, and the lords of the nations have destroyed the vineyard of Sabama: the branches thereof have reached even to Jazer: they have wandered in the wilderness, the branches thereof are left, they are gone over the sea. . . .

Isaiah 32:9-13 Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice: ye confident daughters, give ear to my speech. . . .

Hosea 9:1,2 Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. . . .

Joel 1:10-12 The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished. . . .

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
6Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. 7The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.8The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.…
Cross References
Isaiah 16:10
And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.

Isaiah 32:10
For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.

Jeremiah 7:34
And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

Joel 1:10
The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.

Joel 1:12
The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.

Isaiah 24:6
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