Isaiah 22:1-10 ▼

1 The burthen of the valley of vision. What hast thou to do here, that thou clymbest to the house toppes?

2 Thou that art full of tumultuousnes, thou troublesome and proude citie: Thy slayne men are neither put to death with the sworde, nor dead in battayle.

3 All thy captaynes are fugitiue together, the archers haue taken them prisoners: All they I say that are founde in thee are in captiuitie together, and they also that fled farre of.

4 Therfore sayde I, Let me alone, and I wyll make lamentation: Ye shall not be able to comfort me because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

5 For this is a day of trouble, of ruine, and of destruction, that the Lorde the God of hoastes wyll bryng to passe in the valley of vision, breakyng downe the citie, and crying vnto mountaynes.

6 Elam bare the quiuer with a charret of footmen and horsemen, and the citie of Kir shewed the shielde open.

7 Thy chiefe valley also was full of charrettes, and the horsemen set their faces directly towarde the gate.

8 And in that day dyd the enemie take away the couer of Iuda, and then didst thou loke towarde the armour of the house of the forest.

9 Ye haue seene also the broken places of the citie of Dauid, howe that they are many, and ye gathered together the waters of the lower poole.

10 As for the houses of Hierusalem ye haue numbred them, and the houses haue ye broken downe, to make the wall strong.