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Chariots fill your beautiful valleys,
    and charioteers storm your gates.
Judah’s defenses have been stripped away.
    You run to the armory[a] for your weapons.
You inspect the breaks in the walls of Jerusalem.[b]
    You store up water in the lower pool.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:8 Hebrew to the House of the Forest; see 1 Kgs 7:2-5.
  2. 22:9 Hebrew the city of David.

Your choicest valleys(A) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(B)

The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day(C)
    to the weapons(D) in the Palace of the Forest.(E)
You saw that the walls of the City of David
    were broken through(F) in many places;
you stored up water
    in the Lower Pool.(G)

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