Isaiah 22:1-9
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A Prophecy About Jerusalem
An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision:
What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,
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O town full of commotion,
O city of tumult and revelry?
Your slain were not killed by the sword,
nor did they die in battle.
3
All your leaders have fled together;
they have been captured without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
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Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.”
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The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day
of tumult and trampling and terror
in the Valley of Vision,
a day of battering down walls
and of crying out to the mountains.
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Elam takes up the quiver,
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir uncovers the shield.
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Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates;
8
the defenses of Judah are stripped away.
And you looked in that day
to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest;
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you saw that the City of David
had many breaches in its defenses;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.