Add parallel Print Page Options

Your rulers have all fled together;
    they were captured without the use of a bow.[a]
All of you who were found were captured,
    though they had fled far away.[b]
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.

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.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:3 Or without their bows
  2. Isaiah 22:3 Gk Syr Vg: Heb fled from far away

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.

Read full chapter