Isaiah 22:1-7 ▼

1 The burden of the Valley of Vision. What is [troubling] you now, that you have gone up, || All of you—to the roofs?

2 Full of stirs—a noisy city—an exulting city, || Your pierced are not pierced of the sword, || Nor dead in battle.

3 All your rulers fled from the bow together, || All found of you have been bound, || They have been kept bound together, || They have fled far off.

4 Therefore I said, “Look [away] from me, || I am bitter in my weeping, do not hurry to comfort me, || For the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

5 For a day of noise, and of treading down, || And of perplexity, [is] to the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || In the Valley of Vision, digging down a wall, || And crying to the mountain.

6 And Elam has carried a quiver, || In a chariot of men—horsemen, || And Kir has exposed a shield.

7 And it comes to pass, || The choice of your valleys have been full of chariots, || And the horsemen diligently place themselves at the gate.