Isaiah 22:1–9
1The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?↗
2You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.↗
3All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.↗
4Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.↗
5For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity from the Lord, GOD of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”↗
6Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.↗
7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.↗
8He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.↗
9You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.↗
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