Isaiah 22 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - Isaiah) Free Bible Online

1 - The burden of the valley of vision.What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

2 - You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

3 - All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

4 - Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

5 - For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains."

6 - Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

7 - Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

8 - He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

9 - You saw the breaches of David's city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.