Isaiah 22:1-13 ▼

1 The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?

2 Filled with clamor, a busy city, an exultant city: your dead have not been slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle.

3 All your leaders have fled together, and they have been bound by hardship. All who were found were chained together. They have fled far away.

4 For this reason, I said: “Depart from me. I will weep bitterly. Make no attempt to console me, over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”

5 For it is a day of death, and of trampling, and of weeping to the Lord, the God of hosts, in the valley of vision: examining the wall and the magnificence above the mountain.

6 And Elam took up the quiver and the chariot of the horseman; and he stripped the wall of the shield.

7 And your elect valleys will be filled with chariots, and the horsemen will position themselves at the gates.

8 And the covering of Judah will be exposed, and in that day, you will see the weaponry of the forest house.

9 And you will see breaches in the city of David, for these have been multiplied. But you have gathered together the waters of the lower fish-pool.

10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem. And you have destroyed the houses in order to fortify the wall.

11 And you have made a pit between two walls for the waters of the ancient fish-pool. But you have not gazed upward to him who made it, and you have not considered, even from a distance, its Maker.

12 And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.

13 But behold: gladness and rejoicing, the killing of calves and the slaughter of rams, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”