Isaiah 22:2

Thou that art full of noise, 1 a tumultuous city, exultant city; 1 thy slain men are not slain with the cherev, 1 nor dead in milchamah. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

1The massa (burden) of the Gey Chizayon (Valley of Vision): 1 What is it to thee now, 1 that thou art all gone up to the rooftops? 1

3All thy rulers are fled together, 1 they are captured by the keshet (bow); 1 all that are found in thee are captured together, 1 which have fled far away. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 23:7Is this your joyous city, 1 whose antiquity is of ancient days? 1 Her own raglayim shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 1

Isaiah 37:33Therefore thus saith Hashem concerning Melech Ashur, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot khetz (an arrow) there, nor come before it with mogen, nor cast a siege ramp against it.

Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the sadeh, 1 then hinei! The slain with the cherev! 1 And if I enter into the Ir, 1 then hinei them that are ravaged with ra'av (famine)! 1 Indeed, both the navi and the kohen 1 go roaming to a land that they know not. 1

Jeremiah 52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the ra'av (famine) was severe in the Ir, so that there was no lechem for the Am HaAretz.

Lamentations 4:9They that are slain with the cherev 1 are better than they that are slain with hunger; 1 for these pine away, 1 being pierced for want of the increase of the sadeh. 1

Amos 6:3Ye that put far away the Yom Rah, 1 and cause the shevet chamas to come near; 1

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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