Isaiah 22:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your city is filled with noisy shouts. Those who lie drunk in your streets were not killed in battle.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:4

How will you escape being captured or killed? The Lord is still angry, and he isn't through with you yet!

Isaiah 23:7

Can this be the happy city that has stood for centuries? Its people have spread to distant lands;

Isaiah 32:13

and to the happy homes in Jerusalem. The land of my people is covered with thorns.

Isaiah 32:14

The palace will be deserted, the crowded city empty. Fortresses and towers will for ever become playgrounds for wild donkeys and pastures for sheep.

Isaiah 37:33

I promise that the king of Assyria won't get into Jerusalem, or shoot an arrow into the city, or even surround it and prepare to attack.

Isaiah 37:36

The LORD sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand of them all in one night. The next morning, the camp was full of dead bodies.

Jeremiah 14:18

In the fields I see the bodies of those killed in battle. And in the towns I see crowds dying of hunger. But the prophets and priests go about their business, without understanding what has happened.”

Jeremiah 38:2

that the LORD had said, “If you stay here in Jerusalem, you will die in battle or from disease or hunger, and the Babylonian army will capture the city anyway. But if you surrender to the Babylonians, they will let you live.”

Lamentations 1:1

Jerusalem, once so crowded, lies deserted and lonely. This city that was known all over the world is now like a widow. This queen of the nations has been made a slave.

Lamentations 2:20

Think about it, LORD! Have you ever been this cruel to anyone before? Is it right for mothers to eat their children, or for priests and prophets to be killed in your temple?

Ezekiel 22:5

and people far and near will make fun of your misery.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the glorious city that felt secure and said, “I am the only one!” Now it's merely ruins, a home for wild animals. Every passer-by simply sneers and makes vulgar signs.