Isaiah 22:2

There are shouts and commotion all over the city with people celebrating. Your dead weren't killed by the sword or in battle.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1A message about the Valley of Vision (Jerusalem). What's happening? Why has everyone gone up onto the rooftops?

3All your leaders ran away together; they were captured without resistance. All your people trying to escape were captured together, even though they had run a long way away.

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Cross References

Isaiah 23:7Is this really your triumphant city, whose beginnings are from the distant past, who has sent out people to colonize faraway places?

Isaiah 37:33This is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: He shall not enter this city or shoot an arrow at it. He shall not advance towards it with a shield, or build a siege ramp against it.

Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the countryside, I see those killed by the sword; if I go into the city, I see those dying by famine. Both prophets and priests wander around the country—they don't know what they're doing.

Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat.

Lamentations 4:9Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who slowly waste away in agony because the fields produce no crops.

Amos 6:3You put out of your minds any thought of coming disaster, yet you are bringing closer the time when violence reigns.

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 →

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