Isaiah 22:2

Everyone in the city seems to be shouting. There are a lot of corpses in the city, but they were not killed by their enemies’ swords. They did not die in battles; instead, they died from diseases and hunger.

Translation for Translators

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

1I received this message from Yahweh about Jerusalem, about the valley where Yahweh showed me this vision. Why is everyone foolishly running up to their flat rooftops?

3All the leaders of the city fled. But then they were captured because they did not have bows and arrows to defend themselves. Your soldiers tried to flee while the enemy army was still far away, but they also were captured.

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Cross References

Isaiah 23:7The people in the very old city of Tyre were [RHQ] previously joyful. Traders [PRS] from Tyre established colonies in many distant nations.

Isaiah 37:33And this is what I, Yahweh, say about the King of Assyria: ‘His armies will not enter Jerusalem; they will not even shoot arrows into it. His soldiers will not march outside the city gates holding their shields, and they will not build high mounds of dirt against the walls of the city to enable them to attack the city.

Jeremiah 14:18If I go out into the fields, I see corpses of people who have been slaughtered by our enemies. If I walk along the streets of the city, I see corpses of people who died from hunger. The prophets and the priests travel through the land, preaching to people, but they do not know what they are doing (OR, in a land that they know nothing about).’”

Jeremiah 52:6When Zedekiah had been ruling for almost eleven years, by July 18 of that year, the ◄famine/lack of food► in the city had become very severe, and there was no more food for the people to eat.

Lamentations 4:9It is better to die in a battle [MTY] than to die of hunger. There was no food to harvest in the fields, so the people slowly starved until they died.

Amos 6:3You are trying to not think about a day when you will experience disasters, when your enemies will come and violently attack you.

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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