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Isaiah 22:2

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

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

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

4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
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.
BLB
full of noise O city murmuring, O jubilant town? Your slain [are] not those slain [by] the sword, and they were not killed in battle.
ÅB
Du larmfulle, du brusende stad, du jublende by! Dine drepte er ikke drept med sverd og ikke død i krig.
OTB
Du by full av støy, du urolige by, du by av jubel. Dine døde ble ikke drept med sverd, og de omkom ikke i kamp.
B1930
Du larmfulle, du brusende stad, du jublende by! Dine drepte er ikke drept med sverd og ikke død i krig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 32:13

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

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  • Jeremiah 14:18

    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.’”

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  • Lamentations 2:20

    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?

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  • Isaiah 23:7

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

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  • Jeremiah 52:6

    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.

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  • Lamentations 4:9–10

    Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

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  • Jeremiah 38:2

    “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.

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  • Amos 6:3–6

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

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