Isaiah 22:2
Filled with clamor, a busy city, an exultant city: your dead have not been slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
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Isaiah 23:7Is this not your place, which from its earliest days has gloried in its antiquity? Her feet will lead her to a sojourn far away.
Isaiah 37:33For this reason, thus says the Lord about the king of the Assyrians: He will not enter this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor overtake it with a shield, nor dig a rampart all around it.
Jeremiah 14:18“If I go out into the fields: behold, those slain by the sword. And if I enter into the city: behold, those weakened by famine. Likewise, the prophet, too, and the priest, have gone into a land that they did not know.
Jeremiah 52:6Then, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, a famine gripped the city. And there was no nourishment for the people of the land.
Lamentations 4:9TETH. It was better for those slain by the sword, than for those put to death by famine. For these waste away, being consumed by the sterility of the land.
Amos 6:3You have been set aside for the day of disaster, and you approach the throne of iniquity.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 22:2-8
The Consternation of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 718.) 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of… Read the whole commentary →