Isaiah 22:2

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.

Cross-reference

In Isaiah 22:12, God calls for mourning, contrasting the city's noisy joy—a direct same-chapter rebuke.

Isaiah 22:13 reveals the revelry behind v2's noisy joy: feasting in denial of impending doom.

Isaiah 23:7 Parallel

Isaiah 23:7 mocks another 'joyous city,' Tyre, mirroring the language of false security in v2.

Isaiah 32:13 uses 'houses of joy in the joyous city' to echo v2's description of revelry before judgment.

Lamentations 2:20 echoes the horror of non-battle deaths from Isaiah 22:2, describing women eating their children during Jerusalem's siege.

Lamentations 4:9 expands on the idea that death by starvation (not sword) is worse, directly linking to Isaiah 22:2's 'slain not with sword'.

Lamentations 4:10 provides a specific example of the non-battle deaths in Isaiah 22:2: compassionate women boiling their own children.

Amos 6:3-6 depicts the same complacent feasting and ignoring disaster as the noisy city in v2.

Lamentations 1:1 contrasts Jerusalem's former fullness (Isaiah 22:2) with her lonely desolation after judgment.

Jeremiah 38:2 warns of death by sword/famine/pestilence for staying in the city, contrasting v2's slain not by sword.

Jeremiah 14:18 describes sword and famine deaths in a city, similar to the non-battle deaths in v2.