Verse 2

The city is full of noise and tumult, a city of revelry. Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 32:13 : 13 The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city.
  • Isa 23:7 : 7 Is this your jubilant city, whose origins are from days long ago, whose feet carried her to settle far away?
  • Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go out into the field, I see those slain by the sword. If I enter the city, I see the agonies of famine. Even the prophet and the priest wander aimlessly in the land and have no understanding.
  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Lam 4:9-9 : 9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those dying of hunger, wasting away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field. 10 The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Amos 6:3-6 : 3 You push away the day of disaster and bring near a reign of violence. 4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs from the flock and fattened calves from the stall. 5 You strum away on your harps like David and fashion instruments for music. 6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
  • Jer 38:2 : 2 This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine, or plague. But whoever goes out to the Chaldeans will live; they will escape with their life and survive.
  • Jer 52:6 : 6 By the fourth month, on the ninth day, the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no more food for the people of the land.
  • Isa 22:12-13 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth. 13 But behold, there is joy and gladness—killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine—saying, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!'
  • Isa 37:33 : 33 Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with a shield or build a siege ramp against it.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies.