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Isaiah 22

Isaiah 22:2

The Valley of Vision · Isaiah 22:1–14
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Translations

Modern
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
Traditional
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.
Literal
…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.
Latin
Clamoris plena, urbs frequens, civitas exsultans; interfecti tui, non interfecti gladio, nec mortui in bello.

Original

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

Notes

Isaiah 22:2

  • The city celebrated with feasting and drinking (Isaiah 22:13; see 23:7; 32:13), likely because the Assyrians retreated. Now, a new threat approaches: the Babylonian siege in 586 BC.

  • The people did not die in battle but from famine and disease. The siege cut them off from food and caused a sanitation and health crisis.

Isaiah 22:1–4

The prophet scolds the people for celebrating the Assyrian retreat in 701 BC. They did not predict that the Babylonian army would later, in 586 BC, finish what the Assyrians could not: the destruction of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 22:1–25

This message addresses the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC (see Isaiah 36–37; 2 Kings 18:17–19:37). It may also refer to the people's preparation for the later Babylonian siege from 588 to 586 BC.

Events

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Topics

Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments