Isaiah 22:2
O noiseful, tumultuous city, joyous town? thy slain ones are not slain with the sword, and not those that die in battle.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
1The doom of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the roofs?
Cross References
Isaiah 23:7Is this your fate, ye of the joyous [city]? she whose antiquity is of ancient days—her own feet shall carry her, afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah 37:33Therefore thus hath said the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow thereon, nor come before it with shields, nor cast up an embankment against it.
Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the field, behold, there are the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold, there are those that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest travel round into a land that they know not.
Jeremiah 52:6And in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, when the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land:
Lamentations 4:9Happier are those slain by the sword than those slain by hunger; for those poured forth their blood, being pierced through, —[these perished] without the fruits of the field.
Amos 6:3[Ye] that deem far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
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 →