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 SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 22:2 in context
Isaiah 22:1–5
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The burden of the valley of vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
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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.
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All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
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Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity from the Lord, GOD of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”
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