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The noisy city is full of raucous sounds;
the town is filled with revelry.[a]
Your slain were not cut down by the sword;
they did not die in battle.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:2 tn Heb “the boisterous town.” The phrase is parallel to “the noisy city” in the preceding line.
  2. Isaiah 22:2 sn Apparently they died from starvation during the siege that preceded the final conquest of the city. See J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah (NICOT), 1:409.

you town so full of commotion,
    you city of tumult(A) and revelry?(B)
Your slain(C) were not killed by the sword,(D)
    nor did they die in battle.

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You who are full of noise,
A [a]tumultuous city, (A)a joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle.

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  1. Isaiah 22:2 boisterous