Isaiah 22:1–7

An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem

22 The voracle concerning wthe valley of vision.

What do you mean that you have gone up,

all of you, to the housetops,

2  you who are full of shoutings,

tumultuous city, xexultant town?

Your slain are ynot slain with the sword

or dead in battle.

3  zAll your leaders have fled together;

without the bow they were captured.

All of you who were found were captured,

though they had fled far away.

4  Therefore I said:

“Look away from me;

alet me weep bitter tears;

do not labor to comfort me

concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

5  bFor the Lord God of hosts has ca day

of tumult and dtrampling and econfusion

in wthe valley of vision,

a battering down of walls

and a shouting to the mountains.

6  And fElam bore the quiver

with chariots and horsemen,

and gKir uncovered the shield.

7  Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,

and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.