All thy princes shall flee together from the bow: they shall be [a]bound: all that shall be found in thee, shall be bound together, which have fled from [b]far.

Therefore said I, Turn away from me, I will weep [c]bitterly: labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of trouble, and of ruin, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the city: and a [d]crying unto the mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:3 And led into captivity.
  2. Isaiah 22:3 Which have fled from other places to Jerusalem for succor.
  3. Isaiah 22:4 He showeth what is the duty of the godly, when God’s plagues hang over the Church, and especially of the ministers, Jer. 9:1.
  4. Isaiah 22:5 That is, the shout of the enemies whom God had appointed to destroy the city.

All your leaders have fled(A) together;
    they have been captured(B) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(C) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(D)

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(E)
    of tumult and trampling(F) and terror(G)
    in the Valley of Vision,(H)
a day of battering down walls(I)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

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