Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
O thou that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town. Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle.
New American Standard Bible
You boisterous town, you
Your slain were
Nor
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.
Holman Bible
is filled with revelry.
Your dead did not die by the sword;
they were not killed in battle.
International Standard Version
you who are full of commotion, you passionate city, you rollicking town? Your slain weren't killed by the sword, nor 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.
Amplified
You [Jerusalem] who were full of noise,
A tumultuous city, a joyous and exuberant city;
Your slain were not slain [in a glorious death] with the sword,
Nor did they die 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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
The city put in commotion was filled with noise, the exulting city: thy wounded not wounded of the sword, and not the dead of war.
King James 2000
You that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{noisy}, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain [are] not slain by [the] sword, nor [are they] dead from battle.
Modern King James verseion
Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O thou city of miracles, seditious and willful? Thy slain men are neither killed with sword, nor dead in battle.
NET Bible
The noisy city is full of raucous sounds; the town is filled with revelry. Your slain were not cut down by the sword; they did not die in battle.
New Heart 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.
The Emphasized Bible
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.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Full of stirs -- a noisy city -- an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.
Interlinear
Hamah
`iyr
קריה
Qiryah
Usage: 31
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 22:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Against Jerusalem
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles thee now, that thou have wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 O thou that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town. Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 32:13
Thorns and briers shall come up on the land of my people, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isaiah 23:7
Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! And if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
Lamentations 2:20
See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of LORD?
Isaiah 22:12-13
And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
Isaiah 37:33
Therefore thus says LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. Neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
Isaiah 37:36
And the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Jeremiah 38:2
Thus says LORD: He who abides in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.
Jeremiah 52:6
In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
Lamentations 4:9-10
Those who are slain with the sword are better than those who are slain with hunger, for these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
Amos 6:3-6
Ye who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,