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All of your rulers have fled together without a bow;
    all of you who were found[a] were captured.
They were captured together;
    they had fled far away.

Therefore I said,

“Look away from me,
    let me weep bitterly;[b]
you must not insist on comforting me
    for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion[c] in the valley of vision,
    a tearing down of walls[d] and a cry for help to the mountains.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:3 Literally “your found ones”
  2. Isaiah 22:4 Literally “be bitter in weeping”
  3. Isaiah 22:5 These three Hebrew words are alliterative: mehûmâûmeḇûsâûmeḇûḵâ
  4. Isaiah 22:5 Hebrew “wall”
  5. Isaiah 22:5 Hebrew “mountain”