Isaiah 22:2

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Summary

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.

That art

Thy slain

General references

Ezekiel 26:13

Bible References

That art

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.

You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come, but you establish a reign of violence.

Thy slain

So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: 'He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shielded warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.

If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.'"

"The Lord says, 'Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives.'"

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

(Resh) Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?

(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

General references

I will silence the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.