Isaiah 24:10

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

The city of confusion - what apostate Jerusalem and the world-city, spiritual Babylon, apostate Christendom, would be: by anticipation it is called so. Babel means confusion: the apostate Church, which is spiritual Babylon, is therefore rightly called "The city of confusion," or "emptiness," as the Hebrew, tohu, means. Of the literal Babylon, Isaiah, , saith, the Lord "shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness:" and of the spiritual Babylon, the city of the world, the Lord () pronounces the doom, "I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form (confusion or emptiness) and void." Hebrew, tohu vabohu (the same words as in ): reduced to its primitive chaos.

Every house is shut up - through fear; or rather, choked up by ruins.