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22 This is God’s message concerning Jerusalem:[a]

What is happening? Where is everyone going? Why are they running to the rooftops? What are they looking at? The whole city is in terrible uproar. What’s the trouble in this busy, happy city?[b] Bodies! Lying everywhere, slain by plague and not by sword. All your leaders flee; they surrender without resistance. The people slip away but they are captured too.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:1 Jerusalem, literally, “the Valley of Vision.”
  2. Isaiah 22:2 happy city and slain by plague, implied.

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy(A) against the Valley(B) of Vision:(C)

What troubles you now,
    that you have all gone up on the roofs,(D)
you town so full of commotion,
    you city of tumult(E) and revelry?(F)
Your slain(G) were not killed by the sword,(H)
    nor did they die in battle.
All your leaders have fled(I) together;
    they have been captured(J) 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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