Isaiah 22:2

Is it so you may hear a city full of noises, a town full of revelry? 1 Your dead were not killed with the sword, and they did not die in battle. 1

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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 declaration about the Valley of Vision: 1 What is the reason that you have all gone up to the housetops? 1

3All your rulers fled away together, but they were captured without using a bow; 1 all of them were captured together, though they had fled far away. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 23:7Has this happened to you, the joyful city, whose origin is from ancient times, 1 whose feet carried her far away to foreign places to settle? 1

Isaiah 37:33Therefore Yahweh says this about the king of Assyria: 1 “He will not come into this city and he will not shoot an arrow here. 1 He will not come before it with shield or build up a siege ramp against it. 1

Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the field, there are the ones who were killed by the sword! 1 If I come to the city, there are the diseases that are caused by famine. 1 Both the prophet and the priest wander about the land, and they do not know.'” 1

Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 4:9Those who have been killed by the sword were happier than those killed by hunger, 1 who wasted away, pierced by the lack of any harvest from the field. 1

Amos 6:3Woe to those who put off the day of disaster 1 and make the throne of violence 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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