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noisy,[a] tumultuous city,
    exultant town?
Your slain are not slain by the sword,
    nor are they dead from battle.
All of your rulers have fled together without a bow;
    all of you who were found[b] were captured.
They were captured together;
    they had fled far away.

Therefore I said,

“Look away from me,
    let me weep bitterly;[c]
you must not insist on comforting me
    for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:2 Literally “full of noises”
  2. Isaiah 22:3 Literally “your found ones”
  3. Isaiah 22:4 Literally “be bitter in weeping”