O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelr
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they hav
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both
Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fiel
So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
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
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.