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All your leaders have fled together;
    she is captured[a] without using bows.
All of you who were caught were captured together,
although they had fled
        while the enemy was still[b] far away.
Therefore I said:
    “Look away from me;
        and let me weep bitter tears;
don’t try to console[c] me
    over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”[d]
For to the Lord God of the Heavenly Armies
    belongs the day of tumult, trampling, and confusion
        in the Valley of Vision,[e]
and the pulling down of his Temple on[f] its mountain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:3 So 1QIsaa; MT reads they were captured
  2. Isaiah 22:3 The Heb. lacks while the enemy was still
  3. Isaiah 22:4 Lit. don’t insist on consoling
  4. Isaiah 22:4 I.e. the Lord’s beloved people
  5. Isaiah 22:5 I.e. a poetic allusion to the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem
  6. Isaiah 22:5 Or his Holy Place on; so 1QIsaa; MT reads and a crying out for help to

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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