Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 24:10

"The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in." — Isaiah 24:10 (ASV)

The city of confusion. —Better, the city of chaos, the tohu of Genesis 1:2, without form and void. The world should be cast back out of its cosmos into its primeval chaos. The word is a favourite one with Isaiah (Isaiah 34:11; Isaiah 59:4, and nine other passages).

Every house is shut up — i.e., to complete the picture, not because its gates are barred, but because its own ruins block up the entrance.