Bible verse
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
Isaiah 22:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 22.
1 This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
2 O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
3 All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.
6 Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.
KJV
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.
ASV
O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
ERV
O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
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