Isaiah 22:1-8 ▼

1 The burden of the Valley of Vision: What with you then, that you have gone up, all of you, to the rooftops,

2 full of noise O city murmuring, O jubilant town? Your slain are not those slain by the sword, and they were not killed in battle.

3 All your rulers have fled together, without a bow they are bound; all those being found in you are bound together; they have fled far away.

4 Upon thus I said, “Look away from me, let me be bitter; do not hurry in my weeping to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people!”

5 For it is a day of tumult and trampling and confusion unto the Lord YHWH of Hosts in the Valley of Vision, digging down a wall and crying to the mountain.

6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of man and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

7 And it will come to pass that that the choicest of your valleys will be full of of chariots, and the horsemen are set diligently at the gate.

8 And He uncovered the screen of Judah. And You looked on that day to the weapons of the House of the Forest.