Isaiah 22:2
With tumults, art thou filled, thou citadel in commotion! city exultant! Thy slain, are Not the slain, of the sword, Nor the dead in battle.
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Isaiah 23:7Is this to you an exultation? Though from ancient days, is her antiquity, Yet shall her own feet carry her away, far off to dwell.
Isaiah 37:33Therefore, thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not enter this city, Nor shoot there, an arrow,—Nor attack it with shield, Nor cast up against it a mound:
Jeremiah 14:18If I have gone out into the field, Then lo! the slain of the sword! And, if I have entered the city, Then lo! the diseases of famine! For, both prophet and priest, have trafficked against the land unnoticed.
Jeremiah 52:6In the fourth month on the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe in the city,—and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land,
Lamentations 4:9Better are the slain of the sword, than the slain of the famine,—for, these, pine away, stricken through, wanting the produce of the field.
Amos 6:3Ye who are putting far away the day of calamity,—but bringing near the abode of violence:
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 →