שָׁבַת֙ מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ תֻּפִּ֔ים חָדַ֖ל שְׁא֣וֹן עַלִּיזִ֑ים שָׁבַ֖ת מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ כִּנּֽוֹר
The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Isaiah 24:8
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Isaiah 24:8 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
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King James Version Public Domain
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The joy of tambourines has stopped; the uproar of the exultant has ceased. The joy of the harp has stopped.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
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King James Version Public Domain
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The joy of tambourines has ceased, || The noise of exulting ones has ceased, || The joy of a harp has ceased.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The happy sound of the tambourines stops, and the revelry of those who rejoice; the joy of the lyre ceases.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The joy of tambourines has stopped; the uproar of the exultant has ceased. The joy of the harp has stopped.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The happy sound of tambourines is over; the noise of the party-goers has stopped; the delightful harp music has finished.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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עַלִּיזִ֑ים
ʻallîyz
H5947
“exultant”
Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 7× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Isaiah 13:3
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Type
- Adjective
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
exultant, jubilant
- שָׁבַת֙ shâbath H7673 “to cease” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מְשׂ֣וֹשׂ mâsôws H4885 “joy of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- תֻּפִּ֔ים tôph H8596 “timbrels” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- חָדַ֖ל châdal H2308 “to cease” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- שְׁא֣וֹן shâʼôwn H7588 “roar of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- עַלִּיזִ֑ים ʻallîyz H5947 “exultant” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- שָׁבַ֖ת shâbath H7673 “to cease” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ mâsôws H4885 “joy of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- כִּנּֽוֹר kinnôwr H3658 “lyre” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Prophets
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is עַלִּיזִ֑ים exultant H5947 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עַלִּיזִ֑ים exultant H5947 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 1 adjective
Verb forms
- שָׁבַת֙ Qal · Perfect
- חָדַ֖ל Qal · Perfect
- שָׁבַ֖ת Qal · Perfect
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 13 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
8Topical passages linked to Isaiah 24:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
- Jeremiah 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
- Ezekiel 26:13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
- Revelation 18:22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
- Jeremiah 16:9 For thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
- Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- Isaiah 5:12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; But they don't regard the work of Yahweh, Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
- Isaiah 23:15–16 It shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute.
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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
παύω εὐφροσύνη τύμπανον παύω αὐθάδεια καί πλοῦτος ἀσεβής παύω φωνή κιθάρα
The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, Adam Clarke's Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
בְּטֵלַת חֶדְוַת תּוּפִּין אִתְמְנַעַת אִתְרְגוּשַׁת תַּקִיפִין פִּסְקַת חֶדְוַת כִּנָרָא:
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth; the tumultuous assembly of the mighty is restrained, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
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Isaiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻallîyz (“exultant”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “exultant” (ʻallîyz) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Isaiah 13:3, which shares the word «exultant», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to cease” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- «שָׁבַת֙» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 15 words in this verse.
- “to cease” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Isaiah 24:8 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
J. A. Alexander on Isaiah
Joseph Addison Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander, The Prophecies of Isaiah (1846–1847; New York: Scribner, 1870–1878) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Ibn Ezra
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra
Ibn Ezra on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009” (CC BY 4.0); and “Commentary of Ibn Ezra on Isaiah - trans. by M. Friedlander, 1873” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.