Isaiah 22:2 “O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the…”

Isaiah 22:2

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

American Standard Version

O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou that art full of noise, a citie full of brute, a ioyous citie: thy slaine men shall not bee slaine with sworde, nor die in battell.

Darby Translation

Thou that wast full of stir, a town of tumult, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Young's Literal Translation

Full of stirs — a noisy city — an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.

Bible in Basic English

You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

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Cross references

“that art”

Isaiah 32:13 Isaiah 23:7 Amos 6:3–6 Isaiah 22:12 Isaiah 22:13

Isaiah 32:13 · BSB

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Isaiah 23:7 · BSB

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

Amos 6:3–6 · BSB

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Isaiah 22:12 · BSB

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Isaiah 22:13 · BSB

But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

“thy slain”

Jeremiah 14:18 Lamentations 2:20 Isaiah 37:33 Isaiah 37:36 Jeremiah 38:2 Jeremiah 52:6

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Lamentations 2:20 · BSB

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Isaiah 37:33 · BSB

So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.

Isaiah 37:36 · BSB

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Jeremiah 38:2 · BSB

“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.

Jeremiah 52:6 · BSB

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

3All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

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