Isaiah 22:2
Good News Translation
The whole city is in an uproar, filled with noise and excitement. Your people who died in this war did not die fighting.

New Revised Standard Version
you that are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead in battle.

Contemporary English Version
Your city is filled with noisy shouts. Those who lie drunk in your streets were not killed in battle.

New American Bible
You who were full of noise, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

that art

Isaiah 22:12,13 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: . . .

Isaiah 23:7 Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

Isaiah 32:13 Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

Amos 6:3-6 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity; . . .

thy slain

Isaiah 37:33,36 Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it. . . .

Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.

Jeremiah 28:3 As yet two years of days, and I will cause all the vessels of the house of the Lord to be brought back into this place, which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:6 And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 2:20 Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:9,10 Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth. . . .

Context
The Valley of Vision
1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.3All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.…
Cross References
Isaiah 10:4
That you be not bowed down under the bond, and fall with the slain? In all these things his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 23:7
Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

Isaiah 32:13
Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

Isaiah 32:14
For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever. A joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks.

Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.

Lamentations 1:1
Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces made tributary!

Lamentations 2:20
Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Ezekiel 22:5
Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction.

Zephaniah 2:15
This is the glorious city that dwelt in security: that said in her heart: I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desert, a place for beasts to lie down in? every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

Isaiah 22:1
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