Isaiah 22:1-10 ▼

1 THE prophecy concerning the valley of vision. What do you see here, that you are all gone up to the housetops?

2 The city is full of tumult, the mighty city is full of noise; your slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battle.

3 All your princes are fled together, they are surrounded by the archers; all that were found in you are bound together; they have fled to far off places.

4 Therefore said I, Leave me alone, I will weep bitterly; trouble not yourself to comfort me, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

5 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of weeping before the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision; they have surveyed the walls, and shouted upon the mountains.

6 And Elam bore the quiver with the chariots of men and horsemen, and the shields were seen on the wall.

7 And it shall come to pass that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gates.

8 And the defenses of Judah shall be laid bare, and you shall see on that day the armour of the house of the forest.

9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

10 And you have supplied the houses of Jerusalem with water, and you have broken down the houses to fortify the walls.