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All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound [a]by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; [b]they fled afar off. Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; [c]labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the [d]mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:3 Or, without the bow
  2. Isaiah 22:3 Or, that had fled from far
  3. Isaiah 22:4 Or, hasten
  4. Isaiah 22:5 Or, mountain

All your leaders have fled(A) together;
    they have been captured(B) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(C) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(D)

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(E)
    of tumult and trampling(F) and terror(G)
    in the Valley of Vision,(H)
a day of battering down walls(I)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

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