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1 The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops, 2 you that are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead in battle. 3 Your rulers have all fled together; they were captured without the use of a bow. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away. 4 Therefore I said: Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people. 5 For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a cry for help to the mountains. 6 Elam bore the quiver with chariots and cavalry, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry took their stand at the gates. Isaiah 22:1-7, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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