Isaiah 22:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷Your most beautiful valleys
were covered with chariots;
your cities were surrounded
by cavalry troops.
⁸ Judah was left defenseless.

At that time you trusted in the weapons you had stored in Forest Palace.^[a] ⁹You saw the holes in the outer wall of Jerusalem, and you brought water from the lower pool.^[b]

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Footnotes

22.8 Forest Palace: Built by Solomon (1 Kings 7.2) and used as a place for storing weapons.
22.9 the lower pool: Mentioned only here; probably in the southern part of the Central Valley (Tyropoean Valley) of Jerusalem.